CVE-2021-41271: Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in discourse

First published: Mon Nov 15 2021(Updated: )

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.

Credit: security-advisories@github.com

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