CVE-2021-38294

Shell Command Injection Vulnerability in Nimbus Thrift Server

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

A Command Injection vulnerability exists in the getTopologyHistory service of the Apache Storm 2.x prior to 2.2.1 and Apache Storm 1.x prior to 1.2.4. A specially crafted thrift request to the Nimbus server allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) prior to authentication.

Se presenta una vulnerabilidad de inyección de comandos en el servicio getTopologyHistory de Apache Storm versiones 2.x anteriores a 2.2.1 y Apache Storm versiones 1.x anteriores a 1.2.4. Una petición especialmente diseñada al servidor Nimbus permite una ejecución de código remota (RCE) antes de la autenticación

*Credits: Apache Storm would like to thank @pwntester Alvaro Muñoz of the GitHub Security Lab team for reporting this issue.

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-08-09 CVE Reserved
2021-10-25 CVE Published
2024-08-04 CVE Updated
2024-08-04 First Exploit
2024-10-13 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2021/q4/44	Mailing List
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-085-apache-storm

URL	Date	SRC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165019/Apache-Storm-Nimbus-2.2.0-Command-Execution.html	2024-08-04

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5fe881f6ca883908b7a0f005d35115af49f43beea7a8b0915e377859%40%3Cuser.storm.apache.org%3E	2022-10-18

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Storm Search vendor "Apache" for product "Storm"				>= 1.0.0 < 1.2.4 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Storm" and version " >= 1.0.0 < 1.2.4"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Storm Search vendor "Apache" for product "Storm"				>= 2.1.0 < 2.1.1 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Storm" and version " >= 2.1.0 < 2.1.1"		-		Affected
Apache Search vendor "Apache"		Storm Search vendor "Apache" for product "Storm"				>= 2.2.0 < 2.2.1 Search vendor "Apache" for product "Storm" and version " >= 2.2.0 < 2.2.1"		-		Affected