CVE-2021-40604 is a critical Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting IPS Community Suite versions prior to 4.6.2. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to request arbitrary URLs or trigger deserialization via the phar protocol, with unauthenticated exploitation possible in some scenarios. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high impact on confidentiality and integrity. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:invisioncommunity:ips_community_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.