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CVE-2021-23423

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-23423 is a path traversal vulnerability affecting the bikeshed package prior to version 3.0.0. An attacker can exploit this by providing a malicious source file containing include, include-code, or include-raw blocks, leading to the disclosure of arbitrary file contents in the HTML output. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, resulting in high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bikeshed_project:bikeshed:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0111 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: bikeshedFixed in: 3.0.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-hf6p-4rv2-9qrpmedium

Path Traversal in bikshed

Aug 30, 2021

References

github.com / tabatkins/bikeshed/commit/b2f668fca204260b1cad28d5078e93471cb6b2dd
PatchThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-BIKESHED-1537647
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory