CVE-2021-21359: Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

March 23, 2021 (updated March 26, 2021)

Requesting invalid or non-existing resources via HTTP, triggers the page error handler which again could retrieve content to be shown as error message from another page. This leads to a scenario in which the application is calling itself recursively - amplifying the impact of the initial attack until the limits of the web server are exceeded.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21359
typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2021-005

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