CVE-2021-21979

HIGH

Bitnami Laravel Containers Hard-coded Credentials in APP_KEY

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Bitnami Containers, all Laravel container versions prior to: 6.20.0-debian-10-r107 for Laravel 6, 7.30.1-debian-10-r108 for Laravel 7 and 8.5.11-debian-10-r0 for Laravel 8, the file /tmp/app/.env is generated at the time that the docker image bitnami/laravel was built, and the value of APP_KEY is fixed under certain conditions. This value is crucial for the security of the application and must be randomly generated per Laravel installation. If your application's encryption key is in the hands of a malicious party, that party could craft cookie values using the encryption key and exploit vulnerabilities inherent to PHP object serialization / unserialization, such as calling arbitrary class methods within your application.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-laravel/issues/139

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0065
EPSS Percentile 46.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-798
Status published
Products (10)
bitnami/containers 6.19.0-debian-10-r0
bitnami/containers 7.29.0-debian-10-r0
bitnami/containers 7.30.0-debian-10-r0
bitnami/containers 8.3.0-debian-10-r0
bitnami/containers 8.5.2-debian-10-r0
bitnami/containers 8.5.2-debian-10-r1
bitnami/containers 8.5.3-debian-10-r0
bitnami/containers 8.5.4-debian-10-r0
bitnami/containers 8.5.4-debian-10-r1
bitnami/containers 6.0.2-debian-9-r0 - 6.0.2-debian-9-r22
Published Mar 03, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026