CVE-2021-42560: Mitre Caldera

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in CALDERA 2.9.0. The Debrief plugin receives base64 encoded "SVG" parameters when generating a PDF document. These SVG documents are parsed in an unsafe manner and can be leveraged for XXE attacks (e.g., File Exfiltration, Server Side Request Forgery, Out of Band Exfiltration, etc.).

Affected products

• Mitre Caldera: version 2.9.0 only

Published 2022-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.