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Magento vulnerable to file upload attack

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 7, 2025

Package

composer magento/community-edition (Composer)

Affected versions

< 2.3.7-p1
= 2.3.7
>= 2.4.2-p1, < 2.4.2-p2
= 2.4.2

Patched versions

2.3.7-p1
2.4.2-p2
composer magento/project-community-edition (Composer)
<= 2.0.2
None

Description

Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 (and earlier), 2.4.2-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.7 (and earlier) are affected by an improper input validation vulnerability. An attacker with admin privileges could upload a specially crafted file in the 'pub/media` directory could lead to remote code execution.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 1, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Nov 7, 2025
Last updated Nov 7, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(90th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-36041

GHSA ID

GHSA-mx5m-j5xr-jg8c

Source code

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