CVE-2021-32623
Estado: ModificadaMedia (6.5)—
Opencast is a free and open source solution for automated video capture and distribution. Versions of Opencast prior to 9.6 are vulnerable to the billion laughs attack, which allows an attacker to easily execute a (seemingly permanent) denial of service attack, essentially taking down Opencast using a single HTTP request. To exploit this, users need to have ingest privileges, limiting the group of potential attackers The problem has been fixed in Opencast 9.6. There is no known workaround for this issue.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 6.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 1.25%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 69
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-776
Referencias
- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/commit/8ae27da5a6f658011a5741b3210e715b0dc6213e
- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-9gwx-9cwp-5c2m
- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/commit/8ae27da5a6f658011a5741b3210e715b0dc6213e
- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-9gwx-9cwp-5c2m
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