# CVE-2021-43290: An issue was discovered in ThoughtWorks GoCD before 21.3.0.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-04-14 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in ThoughtWorks GoCD before 21.3.0. An attacker who has compromised a GoCD agent can upload a malicious file into a directory of a GoCD server. They can control the filename but the directory is placed inside of a directory that they can't control.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.gocd.org/releases/#21-3-0
- https://github.com/gocd/gocd/commit/4c4bb4780eb0d3fc4cacfc4cfcc0b07e2eaf0595
- https://github.com/gocd/gocd/commit/c22e0428164af25d3e91baabd3f538a41cadc82f
- https://blog.sonarsource.com/gocd-vulnerability-chain

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