Caching Vulnerability in Discourse Allows for Content Confidentiality Loss

Caching Vulnerability in Discourse Allows for Content Confidentiality Loss

CVE-2021-41271 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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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