CVE-2020-22785 (GCVE-0-2020-22785)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-28 20:22 – Updated: 2024-08-04 14:51
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Summary
Etherpad < 1.8.3 is affected by a missing lock check which could cause a denial of service. Aggressively targeting random pad import endpoints with empty data would flatten all pads due to lack of rate limiting and missing ownership check.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2020-04-13 00:00
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