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CVE-2021-36032 — project-community-edition

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CVE-2021-36032 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in magento/project-community-edition. A fix is available for magento/project-community-edition — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Magento is affected by an improper input validation vulnerability

Also known asGHSA-5vw8-r55w-f4q4
Published
Updated
Affected
5 pkgs
Patched
2 / 5
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 3, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
2.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs83th percentile — riskier than 83% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.15%1.01%1.88%2.74%0.6%2.2%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

5 pkgs affected
🐘magento/project-community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition

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Description

Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 (and earlier), 2.4.2-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.7 (and earlier) are affected by an improper input validation vulnerability. An authenticated attacker can trigger an insecure direct object reference in the V1/customers/me endpoint to achieve information exposure and privilege escalation.

Affected Packages

5 total 2 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistmagento/project-community-editionall versionsNo fix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-editionall versions2.3.7-p1composer require magento/community-edition:^2.3.7-p1
🐘Packagistmagento/community-editionall versionsNo fix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition≥ 2.4.2-p1&&< 2.4.2-p22.4.2-p2composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.2-p2
🐘Packagistmagento/community-editionall versionsNo fix

Affected Products

2 products · 6 configurations
Application
adobe commerceadobe
≥ 2.4.0 && ≤ 2.4.2
1 version
2.4.2
Application
magento open sourceadobe
≥ 2.4.0 && ≤ 2.4.2
1 version
2.4.2

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for magento/project-community-edition, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    A fix is available for CVE-2021-36032; check the affected-versions list above or the advisory for the patched release of magento/project-community-edition, then make sure no transitive dependency still pins the vulnerable range.

  3. Workarounds

    Close the privilege gap rather than the entry point: audit which accounts, roles and service identities can reach the affected operation, drop the component to the least privilege it actually needs, and review file and directory permissions created by earlier installs — a default left in place is what makes this reachable.

Frequently Asked Questions

Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 (and earlier), 2.4.2-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.7 (and earlier) are affected by an improper input validation vulnerability. An authenticated attacker can trigger an insecure direct object reference in the `V1/customers/me` endpoint to achieve information exposure and privilege escalation.
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CVE-2021-36032: project-community — Fixed in 2.3.7-p1