Critical severity · published Oct 20, 2021
CVE-2021-41163
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion
9.8
CVSS
19.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions maliciously crafted requests could lead to remote code execution. This resulted from a lack of validation in subscribe_url values. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. To workaround the issue without updating, requests with a path starting /webhooks/aws path could be blocked at an upstream proxy.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)19.8% · higher than 97% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
Discourse · Discourse
before 2.7.9; 2.8.0; 2.8.0; 2.8.0; 2.8.0; 2.8.0; +1 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41163
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-41163
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fa3c46cf079d28b086fe1025349bb00223a5d5e9
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-jcjx-pvpc-qgwq
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