DEBIAN-CVE-2021-40978

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-40978
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Upstream
Published
2021-10-07T14:15:08Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:27:09.215857Z
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

Debian:11 / python-mkdocs

Package

Name
python-mkdocs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-mkdocs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.2+dfsg-1
1.1.2+dfsg-2
1.2.3-1
1.3.0+dfsg-1
1.3.0+dfsg-2
1.4.0+dfsg-1
1.4.0+dfsg-2
1.4.0+dfsg-3
1.4.1+dfsg-1
1.4.2+dfsg-1
1.4.2+dfsg-2
1.5.2+dfsg-1
1.5.3+dfsg-1
1.5.3+dfsg-2
1.6.1+dfsg-1
1.6.1+dfsg-2
1.6.1+dfsg-3
1.6.1+dfsg1-1
1.6.1+dfsg1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / python-mkdocs

Package

Name
python-mkdocs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-mkdocs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.4.2+dfsg-2
1.5.2+dfsg-1
1.5.3+dfsg-1
1.5.3+dfsg-2
1.6.1+dfsg-1
1.6.1+dfsg-2
1.6.1+dfsg-3
1.6.1+dfsg1-1
1.6.1+dfsg1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / python-mkdocs

Package

Name
python-mkdocs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-mkdocs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.1+dfsg1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:14 / python-mkdocs

Package

Name
python-mkdocs
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-mkdocs?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.1+dfsg1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}