High
Security advisory
Etherpad < 1.8.3 is affected by a denial of service in the import functionality. Upload of binary file to the import endpoint would crash the instance.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-22782
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Etherpad < 1.8.3 is affected by a denial of service in the import functionality. Upload of binary file to the import endpoint would crash the instance.
osv:CVE-2020-22782
Complete source record
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