CVE-2021-32623

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:apereo:opencast:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2021-06-16 12:15

Updated : 2021-06-23 07:55


NVD link : CVE-2021-32623

Mitre link : CVE-2021-32623

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-776

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')