Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 15, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024
Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in discourse
CVE-2021-41271
Description
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.
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Affected products
3(expand)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.10
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2da0001965c6d8632d723c46ea5df9f22a1a23f1mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-hf6r-mc9j-hf4pmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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