CVE-2021-40978
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-10-07 13:23
Modified
2024-08-04 02:59
Severity ?
Summary
The mkdocs 1.2.2 built-in dev-server allows directory traversal using the port 8000, enabling remote exploitation to obtain :sensitive information. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this as described in https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/2601.] and https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978/issues/1
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocsThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/2601Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978/issues/1Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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