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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2021-42564 json

An open redirect through HTML injection in confidential messages in Cryptshare before 5.1.0 allows remote attackers (with permission to pro…

published 2021-11-30 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-29532

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 52%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An open redirect through HTML injection in confidential messages in Cryptshare before 5.1.0 allows remote attackers (with permission to provide confidential messages via Cryptshare) to redirect targeted victims to any URL via the '<meta http-equiv="refresh"' substring in the editor parameter.

Patch / fix

  • cryptshare cryptshare_server 5.1.0

Exploit prediction

0.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • syss.de https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2021-057.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.