CVE-2021-36802 (GCVE-0-2021-36802)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-04 22:20
Modified
2024-09-17 00:11
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-248 - Uncaught Exception Denial of Service
Summary
Akaunting version 2.1.12 and earlier suffers from a denial-of-service issue that is triggered by setting a malformed 'locale' variable and sending it in an otherwise normal HTTP POST request. This issue was fixed in version 2.1.13 of the product.
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Impacted products
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