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CVE-2021-43289

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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 an arbitrary directory of a GoCD server, but does not control the filename.

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

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