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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2021-06-15T23:45:10

Updated: 2021-06-15T23:45:10

Reserved: 2021-05-12T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-32623

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-06-16T00:15:07.717

Modified: 2021-06-23T19:55:22.117


Link: CVE-2021-32623

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