CVE-2021-43857: Gerapy may cause remote code execution

CVE-2021-43857 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2021-12-27

Gerapy is a distributed crawler management framework. Gerapy prior to version 0.9.8 is vulnerable to remote code execution, and this issue is patched in version 0.9.8.

Technologies: gerapy (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2021-43857 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2021-43857 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2021-43857?
Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 27 December 2021.
Which products and versions are affected?
gerapy (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.9.8, GIT:introduced=0,fixed=49bcb19be5e0320e7e1535f34fe00f16a3cf3b28|ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.9.8.
Is there a fix for CVE-2021-43857?
Yes. gerapy (PyPI): upgrade to 0.9.8 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2021-43857?
Check whether you run gerapy (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • gerapy (PyPI): upgrade to 0.9.8 or later
    pip install "gerapy>=0.9.8"

Affected products

  • gerapy (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.9.8, GIT:introduced=0,fixed=49bcb19be5e0320e7e1535f34fe00f16a3cf3b28|ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.9.8

Identifiers

  • CVE-2021-43857
  • GHSA-9w7f-m4j4-j3xw
  • PYSEC-2021-867

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