CVE-2021-41271 (GCVE-0-2021-41271)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-15 21:20 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:08
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse Affected: < 2.7.10
Affected: >= 2.8.0, < 2.8.0.beta8
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