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high 7.5

CVE-2021-43287 in the critical feed json

An issue was discovered in ThoughtWorks GoCD before 21.3.0.

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-30231

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
27.4%
EPSS 27.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

An issue was discovered in ThoughtWorks GoCD before 21.3.0. The business continuity add-on, which is enabled by default, leaks all secrets known to the GoCD server to unauthenticated attackers.

Patch / fix

  • thoughtworks gocd 21.3.0

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Exploit prediction

27.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • Nuclei template Pre-Auth Takeover of Build Pipelines in GoCD nuclei detection template
  • blog.sonarsource.com https://blog.sonarsource.com/gocd-pre-auth-pipeline-takeover referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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