CVE-2021-40978

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40978
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-40978.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-40978
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2021-10-07T14:15:08.280Z
Modified
2026-07-08T23:57:51.083105Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The mkdocs 1.2.2 built-in dev-server allows directory traversal using the port 8000, enabling remote exploitation to obtain :sensitive information. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this as described in https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/2601.] and https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978/issues/1

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs
Events
Introduced
52ed45a58cbec0d9860d13e5ac123d6fd14aeca6
Last affected
52ed45a58cbec0d9860d13e5ac123d6fd14aeca6
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mkdocs:mkdocs:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.2.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.2.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.2.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-40978.json"