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CVE-2021-21360: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Products.GenericSetup

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Products.GenericSetup is a mini-framework for expressing the configured state of a Zope Site as a set of filesystem artifacts. In Products.GenericSetup before version 2.1.1 there is an information disclosure vulnerability - anonymous visitors may view log and snapshot files generated by the Generic Setup Tool. The problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1. Depending on how you have installed Products.GenericSetup, you should change the buildout version pin to 2.1.1 and re-run the buildout, or if you used pip simply do pip install `"Products.GenericSetup>=2.1.1"`.

Affected products

• zopefoundation Products.GenericSetup: before 2.1.1 — fixed in 2.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: zopefoundation Products.GenericSetup 2.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/21/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/22/1
• https://github.com/zopefoundation/Products.GenericSetup/commit/700319512b3615b3871a1f24e096cf66dc488c57
• https://github.com/zopefoundation/Products.GenericSetup/security/advisories/GHSA-jff3-mwp3-f8cw
• https://pypi.org/project/Products.GenericSetup/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/21/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/22/1
• https://github.com/zopefoundation/Products.GenericSetup/commit/700319512b3615b3871a1f24e096cf66dc488c57
• https://github.com/zopefoundation/Products.GenericSetup/security/advisories/GHSA-jff3-mwp3-f8cw
• https://pypi.org/project/Products.GenericSetup/

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