CVE-2021-42115 is a critical vulnerability affecting Business-DNA Solutions GmbH’s TopEase® Platform versions up to 7.1.27. It stems from a missing HTTPOnly flag for a session-independent cookie, enabling unauthenticated attackers to steal and inject this static UID cookie. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (Critical), this flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to escalate privileges to authenticated users, leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.1.27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:businessdnasolutions:topease:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.