Vulnerability · Published Apr 28, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-22781
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 66% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 33.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
In Etherpad < 1.8.3, a specially crafted URI would raise an unhandled exception in the cache mechanism and cause a denial of service (crash the instance).
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/3502 x_refsource_CONFIRM