Medium

Server-Side Request Forgery in Concrete CMS

  • Disclosed: 23.11.2021
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) versions below 8.5.7 has a SSRF mitigation bypass using DNS Rebind attack giving an attacker the ability to fetch cloud IAAS (ex AWS) IAM keys.To fix this Concrete CMS no longer allows downloads from the local network and specifies the validated IP when downloading rather than relying on DNS.Discoverer.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Composer package concrete5/core < 8.5.7 8.5.7

References

CVSS score -
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-918
Platform
Composer
Package
concrete5/core
Disclosed
23.11.2021
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-mcxr-fx5f-96qq - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: concrete5/core

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Composer package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (9) in the archive
Total entries
9
First → latest
11.2021 06.2022
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 1
  • High 3
  • Medium 4
  • Low 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2021: 6
  2. 2022: 3
  3. 2023: 0
  4. 2024: 0
  5. 2025: 0
  6. 2026: 0
Severity:
  1. Critical · 9.1 CVE-2022-30117 >= 9.0.0, < 9.1.0, < 8.5.8 9.1.0, 8.5.8
  2. High · 8.0 CVE-2022-21829 >= 9.0.0, < 9.1.0, < 8.5.8 9.1.0, 8.5.8
  3. Server-Side Request Forgery in Concrete CMS this entry
    Medium CVE-2021-22969 < 8.5.7 8.5.7
  4. High · 8.8 CVE-2021-22966 < 8.5.7 8.5.7
  5. High · 7.2 CVE-2021-22968 < 8.5.7 8.5.7

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