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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2021-06-15T23:45:10
Updated: 2024-08-03T23:25:30.875Z
Reserved: 2021-05-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-32623
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-06-16T00:15:07.717
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:07:24.060
Link: CVE-2021-32623
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