Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Zammad before 4.1.1. The Form functionality allows remote code execution because deserialization is mishandled.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-42090
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Zammad before 4.1.1. The Form functionality allows remote code execution because deserialization is mishandled.
osv:CVE-2021-42090
Complete source record
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"references": [
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