SCA: security update for magento/community-edition (GHSA-6cwv-wj7v-73xp)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436011

Description

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

- Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 (and earlier), 2.4.2-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.7 (and earlier) are affected
by an improper input validation vulnerability in the API File Option Upload Extension. An attacker with
Admin privileges can achieve unrestricted file upload which can result in remote code execution.
(CVE-2021-36042)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6cwv-wj7v-73xp

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436011

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 11/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36042

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: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36042

cwe: CWE-20