CVE-2021-41271

Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in discourse

State
Published
Severity
4.8 Medium
Published
Nov 15, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Sep 15, 2021

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Description

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request could cause an error response to be cached by intermediate proxies. This could cause a loss of confidentiality for some content. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.8 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

ProductVersions
discoursediscourse
  • < 2.7.10Affected
  • >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.0.beta8Affected

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