CVE-2021-36471 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Directory Traversal vulnerability in AdminLTE 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to gain escalated privilege and view sensitive information via /admin/index2.html, /admin/index3.html URIs. Note: AdminLTE developers dispute that this a weakness with AdminLTE and is instead a misconfiguration error on various websites by the website developers.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Adminlte.io	Adminlte

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:adminlte.io:adminlte:3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://gist.github.com/cybersaki/31ffe679a5552c1047164e3a5b01c2fd
https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/AdminLTE/issues/4948

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description	Directory Traversal vulnerability in AdminLTE 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to gain escalated privilege and view sensitive information via /admin/index2.html, /admin/index3.html URIs.	Directory Traversal vulnerability in AdminLTE 3.1.0 allows remote attackers to gain escalated privilege and view sensitive information via /admin/index2.html, /admin/index3.html URIs. Note: AdminLTE developers dispute that this a weakness with AdminLTE and is instead a misconfiguration error on various websites by the website developers.
References		https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/AdminLTE/issues/4948

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-02-07T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T21:28:45.499Z

Reserved: 2021-07-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-36471

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:54:51.427Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-07T23:15:08.720

Modified: 2025-04-23T22:15:15.203

Link: CVE-2021-36471

Redhat

No data.

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