CVE-2021-23154: Command injection in Lens causes arbitrary shell command execution when malicious custom helm chart configuration provided

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

In Lens prior to 5.3.4, custom helm chart configuration creates helm commands from string concatenation of provided arguments which are then executed in the user's shell. Arguments can be provided which cause arbitrary shell commands to run on the system.

Affected products

Mirantis Lens: through 5.3.3

References

https://github.com/Mirantis/security/blob/main/advisories/0003.md
https://github.com/Mirantis/security/blob/main/advisories/0003.md

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