Security advisory

{
  "id": "3e83484a54433da0cd1d59e7d2f55469b0f833ae36304c23a6c2486be1750693",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-42560",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-42560",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in CALDERA 2.9.0. The Debrief plugin receives base64 encoded \"SVG\" parameters when generating a PDF document. These SVG documents are parsed in an unsafe manner and can be leveraged for XXE attacks (e.g., File Exfiltration, Server Side Request Forgery, Out of Band Exfiltration, etc.).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-42560",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-42560",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-42560"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/caldera",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "b874da9bf24ec9025a1016305642298143daaa8e"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b874da9bf24ec9025a1016305642298143daaa8e"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mitre:caldera:2.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.9.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.9.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.9.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42560.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:55:00.825567846Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/mitre/caldera/releases",
        "https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2021-42560-Unsafe%20XML%20Parsing-MITRE%20Caldera"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-42560",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 386680,
  "published_at": "2022-01-12T19:15:08.267+00:00"
}