CVE-2021-33359

HIGH 7.5CVE-2021-33359 · Published 09/06/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-33359 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting gowitness (sensepost).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 69.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.3.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gowitness sensepost	`< 2.3.6`	`2.3.6`

Description

A vulnerability exists in gowitness < 2.3.6 that allows an unauthenticated attacker to perform an arbitrary file read using the file:// scheme in the url parameter to get an image of any file.

References

sensepost/gowitness release 2.3.6 · Patch
twitter.com/leonjza/status/1395283512433971202 · Third Party Advisory

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