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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:09

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

RCE via malicious SNS subscription payload

Details

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.

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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
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              "fixed": "2.7.9"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
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  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-41163"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
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      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
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  "id": "BIT-discourse-2021-41163",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:09:16.561Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fa3c46cf079d28b086fe1025349bb00223a5d5e9"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-jcjx-pvpc-qgwq"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41163"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "RCE via malicious SNS subscription payload"
}

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-20 22:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:59

Title

RCE via malicious SNS subscription payload

Summary

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

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fa3…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	discourse	discourse	Affected: tests-passed < 2.8.0.beta7 Affected: beta < 2.8.0.beta7 Affected: stable < 2.7.9

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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

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