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CVE-2021-42837

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

An issue was discovered in Talend Data Catalog before 7.3-20210930. After setting up SAML/OAuth, authentication is not correctly enforced on the native login page. Any valid user from the SAML/OAuth provider can be used as the username with an arbitrary password, and login will succeed.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Talend — Data Catalog

CWEs

References

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