CVE-2021-26703

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2021-26703 · Published 01/03/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-26703 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting eprints (eprints).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.0%, higher than 90.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
eprints eprints	`= 3.4.2`	No fix yet

EPrints 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly execute commands via crafted JSON/XML input to a cgi/ajax/phrase URI.

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