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CVE-2021-36029Magento Commerce Improper Authorization Vulnerability Could Lead To Remote Code Execution
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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 improper authorization vulnerability. An attacker with admin privileges could leverage this vulnerability to achieve remote code execution.
Timeline
ID reserved
By adobe
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| adobeCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
- affected unspecified – ≤ 2.4.2
- affected unspecified – ≤ 2.4.2-p1
- affected unspecified – ≤ 2.3.7
- affected unspecified – ≤ None
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmagento/community-editionGHSA-m8wx-whpp-q283 (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistmagento/project-community-editionGHSA-m8wx-whpp-q283 (opens in a new tab)
References
References1
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/magento/apsb21-64.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-22662 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m8wx-whpp-q283 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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