CVE-2021-30080
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

An issue was discovered in the route lookup process in beego before version 1.12.11 that allows attackers to bypass access control. The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2021-30080 and was publicly disclosed in April 2022 (NVD, MITRE).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the route lookup process of the beego web framework. It received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 9.8 CRITICAL (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and a CVSS v2.0 Base Score of 7.5 HIGH (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows attackers to bypass access control mechanisms in applications built with the beego framework, potentially leading to unauthorized access to protected resources and functionality (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was fixed in beego version 1.12.11. Users should upgrade to this version or later to address the security issue. The fix involves modifying the route lookup process to prevent access control bypass (GitHub Patch).

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