CVE-2021-38294
9.8 CRITICALA Command Injection vulnerability exists in the getTopologyHistory service of the Apache Storm 2.x prior to 2.2.1 and Apache Storm 1.x pr...
Published: 2021-10-25 · Last updated: 2026-06-17
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 9.8 CRITICAL
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-74, CWE-78
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| apache | storm |
Description
A Command Injection vulnerability exists in the getTopologyHistory service of the Apache Storm 2.x prior to 2.2.1 and Apache Storm 1.x prior to 1.2.4. A specially crafted thrift request to the Nimbus server allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) prior to authentication.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38294
- [Exploit reference]http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165019/Apache-Storm-Nimbus-2.2.0-Command-Execution.html
- [Vendor advisory]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5fe881f6ca883908b7a0f005d35115af49f43beea7a8b0915e377859%40%3Cuser.storm.apache.org%3E
- [Other]https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2021/q4/44
- [Exploit reference]http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165019/Apache-Storm-Nimbus-2.2.0-Command-Execution.html
- [Vendor advisory]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5fe881f6ca883908b7a0f005d35115af49f43beea7a8b0915e377859%40%3Cuser.storm.apache.org%3E
- [Other]https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2021/q4/44
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