CVE-2020-22785

2021-04-2821:15:08

Google

osv.dev

etherpad denial of service vulnerability

missing lock check

random pad import vulnerability

lack of rate limiting

missing ownership check

AI Score

6.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

40.6%

JSON

Etherpad < 1.8.3 is affected by a missing lock check which could cause a denial of service. Aggressively targeting random pad import endpoints with empty data would flatten all pads due to lack of rate limiting and missing ownership check.

References

github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/pull/3833