A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in IPS Community Suite before 4.6.2 allows remote authenticated users to request arbitra…

published 2022-06-13 4y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-27779

cvss: 9.1; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits: 0; none known

A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in IPS Community Suite before 4.6.2 allows remote authenticated users to request arbitrary URLs or trigger deserialization via phar protocol when generating class names dynamically. In some cases an exploitation is possible by an unauthenticated user.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

invisioncommunity ips_community_suite 4.6.2

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Exploit prediction

1.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	9.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	6.4	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery

References

invisioncommunity.com /release-notes/462-r99/
release-notes, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-40604
NVD CVE-2021-40604

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