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MEDIUM

CVE-2021-3980

CVE-2021-3980 — Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor in elgg/elgg

elgg is vulnerable to Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, @huntrdev

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

2%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

elgg

elgg_elgg

CVSS base

5.3

MEDIUM

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

elgg

Products (1)

elgg elgg

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
5.3CVSS 3.0MEDIUM——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-359

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1606.001Forge Web Credentials: Web Cookies

References

2 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • elggevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-359other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.