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CVE-2021-42561

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2022-01-12 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in CALDERA 2.8.1. When activated, the Human plugin passes the unsanitized name parameter to a python "os.system" function. This allows attackers to use shell metacharacters (e.g., backticks "``" or dollar parenthesis "$()" ) in order to escape the current command and execute arbitrary shell commands.

Affected Platforms

Mitre Caldera

Weakness Type

CWE-74

References