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CVE-2021-36802 (GCVE-0-2021-36802)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-04 22:20 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:11
VLAI
Title
Akaunting DoS via User-Controlled 'locale' Variable
Summary
Akaunting version 2.1.12 and earlier suffers from a denial-of-service issue that is triggered by setting a malformed 'locale' variable and sending it in an otherwise normal HTTP POST request. This issue was fixed in version 2.1.13 of the product.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-248 - Uncaught Exception Denial of Service
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Akaunting Akaunting Affected: 2.1.12 , ≤ 2.1.12 (custom)
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Date Public
2021-07-27 00:00
Credits
Wiktor Sędkowski of Nokia and Trevor Christiansen of Rapid7 discovered and reported this issue through Rapid7's vulnerability disclosure program.
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