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CVE-2021-43286

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

An issue was discovered in ThoughtWorks GoCD before 21.3.0. An attacker with privileges to create a new pipeline on a GoCD server can abuse a command-line injection in the Git URL "Test Connection" feature to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• gocd: before 21.3.0 — fixed in 21.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: gocd 21.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://blog.sonarsource.com/gocd-vulnerability-chain
• https://github.com/gocd/gocd/commit/2b77b533abcbb79c8fc758dec9984305dc1ade42
• https://github.com/gocd/gocd/commit/6fa9fb7a7c91e760f1adc2593acdd50f2d78676b
• https://www.gocd.org/releases/#21-3-0
• https://blog.sonarsource.com/gocd-vulnerability-chain
• https://github.com/gocd/gocd/commit/2b77b533abcbb79c8fc758dec9984305dc1ade42
• https://github.com/gocd/gocd/commit/6fa9fb7a7c91e760f1adc2593acdd50f2d78676b
• https://www.gocd.org/releases/#21-3-0

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