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SCA: security update for magento/community-edition (GHSA-wqr6-wv6c-p8fx)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435974

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Magento versions 2.4.2 (and earlier), 2.4.2-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.7 (and earlier) are affected by an
 improper access control vulnerability within Magento's Media Gallery Upload workflow. By storing a
 specially crafted file in the website gallery, an authenticated attacker with administrative privilege can
 gain access to delete the .htaccess file. This could result in the attacker achieving remote code
 execution. (CVE-2021-36036)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqr6-wv6c-p8fx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435974

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 11/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36036

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36036

cwe: CWE-284