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CVE-2021-36802: Akaunting DoS via User-Controlled 'locale' Variable

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-08-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-248

Description

Akaunting version 2.1.12 and earlier suffers from a denial-of-service issue that is triggered by setting a malformed 'locale' variable and sending it in an otherwise normal HTTP POST request. This issue was fixed in version 2.1.13 of the product.

Affected products

• Akaunting: through 2.1.12

References

• https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/07/27/multiple-open-source-web-app-vulnerabilities-fixed/
• https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/07/27/multiple-open-source-web-app-vulnerabilities-fixed/

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