THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-39174
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2021-39174

Catchet vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
3.9%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Cachet is an open source status page system. Prior to version 2.5.1, authenticated users, regardless of their privileges (User or Admin), can leak the value of any configuration entry of the dotenv file, e.g. the application secret (`APP_KEY`) and various passwords (email, database, etc). This issue was addressed in version 2.5.1 by improving `UpdateConfigCommandHandler` and preventing the use of nested variables in the resulting dotenv configuration file. As a workaround, only allow trusted source IP addresses to access to the administration dashboard.
Affected vendor
Catchethq
Affected product
Catchet
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2021-08-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-39174

  • Confirm whether Catchethq Catchet is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-39174.
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