Medium severity · published Aug 31, 2021
CVE-2021-27557
A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Cron job tab in EasyCorp ZenTao 12.5.3 allows attackers to update the fields of a Cron job
4.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Cron job tab in EasyCorp ZenTao 12.5.3 allows attackers to update the fields of a Cron job.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ZE
Zentao · Easycorp
12.5.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27557
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27557
Exploit
https://privasec.com/blog/zentao-cms-a-monkeys-journey-to-priv-esc-remote-code-execution/
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