CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2021-27786 — Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) enables browsers to perform cross domain requests in a controlled manner

Critical CVSS 9.8

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) enables browsers to perform cross domain requests in a controlled manner. This request has an Origin header that identifies the domain that is making the initial request and defines the protocol between a browser and server to see if the request is allowed. An attacker can take advantage of this and possibly carry out privileged actions and access sensitive information when the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials is enabled.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
Published
2022-06-09
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-942, CWE-697

Affected products

  • hcltech / onetest_server / 10.0
  • hcltech / onetest_server / 10.1
  • hcltech / onetest_server / 10.2

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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