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CVE-2021-41269 is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. Exploits are available; patches have been released and should be applied urgently.
Lower probability of exploitation
EPSS predicts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days based on real-world threat data, complementing CVSS severity scores with actual risk assessment.
A Template Injection was identified in cron-utils enabling attackers to inject arbitrary Java EL expressions, leading to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability. Versions up to 9.1.2 are susceptible to this vulnerability. Please note, that only projects using the @Cron annotation to validate untrusted Cron expressions are affected.
The issue was patched and a new version was released. Please upgrade to version 9.1.6.
There are no known workarounds up to this moment.
A description of the issue is provided in issue 461
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
Open an issue in the cron-utils Github repository
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| Cron Utils Project | Cron Utils |
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