CVE-2021-41163

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41163
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-20 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-24 18:43:00 UTC
DescriptionDiscourse 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Discourse Discourse All All All All
Application Discourse Discourse 2.8.0 beta1 All All
Application Discourse Discourse 2.8.0 beta2 All All
Application Discourse Discourse 2.8.0 beta3 All All
Application Discourse Discourse 2.8.0 beta4 All All
Application Discourse Discourse 2.8.0 beta5 All All
Application Discourse Discourse 2.8.0 beta6 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SECURITY: Improve validation of SNS subscription confirm (#14672) · discourse/discourse@fa3c46c · GitHub MISC github.com
RCE via malicious SNS subscription payload · Advisory · discourse/discourse · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 730264 Discourse Remote Code Execution (RCE) via malicious Simple Notification Service (SNS) subscription payload

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