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critical 9.3

CVE-2021-21425 in the critical feed json

Unauthenticated Arbitrary YAML Write/Update leads to Code Execution

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-8706

cvss
9.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
80.5%
EPSS 80.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
2
Metasploit and Exploit-DB

Summary

Grav Admin Plugin is an HTML user interface that provides a way to configure Grav and create and modify pages. In versions 1.10.7 and earlier, an unauthenticated user can execute some methods of administrator controller without needing any credentials. Particular method execution will result in arbitrary YAML file creation or content change of existing YAML files on the system. Successfully exploitation of that vulnerability results in configuration changes, such as general site information change, custom scheduler job definition, etc. Due to the nature of the vulnerability, an adversary can change some part of the webpage, or hijack an administrator account, or execute operating system command under the context of the web-server user. This vulnerability is fixed in version 1.10.8. Blocking access to the `/admin` path from untrusted sources can be applied as a workaround.

Patch / fix

  • getgrav grav-plugin-admin 1.10.8

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/http/gravcms_exec)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

80.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/linux/http/gravcms_exec GravCMS Remote Command Execution metasploit exploit, normal rank, 2021-03-29
  • EDB-49788 GravCMS 1.10.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Write (Metasploit) webapps, 2021-04-21
  • pentest.blog https://pentest.blog/unexpected-journey-7-gravcms-unauthenticated-arbitrary-yaml-write-update-leads-to-code-execution/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • getgrav grav-plugin-admin

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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