CVE-2021-41163 (GCVE-0-2021-41163)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-20 22:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:59
VLAI
Title
RCE via malicious SNS subscription payload
Summary
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.
Severity
10 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-74 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7904 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
discourse discourse Affected: tests-passed < 2.8.0.beta7
Affected: beta < 2.8.0.beta7
Affected: stable < 2.7.9
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