# CVE-2021-32849: Arbitrary command execution in Gerapy

- Also known as: PYSEC-2022-17, GHSA-756H-R2C9-QP5J
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 0.9.9
- Published: 2022-01-26 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- gerapy: from 0.9.9, fixed in 0.9.9
- gerapy (PyPI): fixed in 0.9.9

## Description

Gerapy is a distributed crawler management framework. Prior to version 0.9.9, an authenticated user could execute arbitrary commands. This issue is fixed in version 0.9.9. There are no known workarounds.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gerapy, upgrade to a fixed version (0.9.9) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [PyPI packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/pypi.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-076-gerapy/
- https://github.com/Gerapy/Gerapy/security/advisories/GHSA-756h-r2c9-qp5j
- https://github.com/Gerapy/Gerapy/issues/197
- https://github.com/Gerapy/Gerapy/issues/217
- https://lgtm.com/projects/g/Gerapy/Gerapy?mode=tree&ruleFocus=1505994646253
- https://github.com/lowkey0808/cve-2021-32849

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