CVE-2021-42575 describes a critical vulnerability in the OWASP Java HTML Sanitizer (versions prior to 20211018.1) and related Oracle products, where it fails to properly enforce security policies for SELECT, STYLE, and OPTION HTML elements. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating it can be exploited remotely without user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vulnerability is severe, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 20211018.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:owasp:java_html_sanitizer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.2.1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:middleware_common_libraries_and_tools:12.2.1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.2.1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:middleware_common_libraries_and_tools:12.2.1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 17.7, <= 17.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:primavera_unifier:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
18.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:primavera_unifier:18.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.