THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-42192
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2021-42192

Konga vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
10.1%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Konga v0.14.9 is affected by an incorrect access control vulnerability where a specially crafted request can lead to privilege escalation.
Affected vendor
Konga Project
Affected product
Konga
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization
Published
2022-05-04

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 10.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-42192

  • Confirm whether Konga Project Konga is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-42192.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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