# CVE-2021-42560: An issue was discovered in CALDERA 2.9.0.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2022-01-12 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.).

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/mitre/caldera/releases
- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2021-42560-Unsafe%20XML%20Parsing-MITRE%20Caldera
- https://github.com/mbadanoiu/CVE-2021-42560

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