{"id":"BIT-discourse-2021-41271","summary":"Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in discourse","details":"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.","aliases":["CVE-2021-41271","GHSA-hf6r-mc9j-hf4p"],"modified":"2026-09-08T08:46:01.394474440Z","published":"2024-03-06T11:09:07.503Z","database_specific":{"severity":"Medium","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta6:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta7:*:*:*:*:*:*"]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2da0001965c6d8632d723c46ea5df9f22a1a23f1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-hf6r-mc9j-hf4p"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41271"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"discourse","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/discourse"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.7.9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/discourse/BIT-discourse-2021-41271.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"}]}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}