What is CVE-2021-36802?

CVE-2021-36802 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Akaunting, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-08-04.

How severe is CVE-2021-36802?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Akaunting

CVE-2021-36802

Akaunting version 2.1.12 and earlier suffers from a denial-of-service issue that is triggered by setting a malformed 'locale' variable and sending it in an otherwise normal HTTP POST request. This issue was fixed in version 2.1.13 of the product.

Published 2021-08-04 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 57.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Akaunting — versions 2.1.12

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-248

References

www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/07/27/multiple-open-source-web-app-vulnerabilitie… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-36802?: CVE-2021-36802 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Akaunting, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-08-04.
How severe is CVE-2021-36802?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.