{"id":"CVE-2021-25980","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-25980","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:19:44.893Z","title":"In Talkyard, versions v0.04.01 through v0.6.74-WIP-63220cb, v0.2020.22-WIP-b2e97fe0e through v0.2021.02-WIP-879ef3fe1 and tyse-v0.2021.02-879ef3fe1-regular through tyse-v0.2021.28-af66b6905-regular, are vulnerable to Host Header Injection.","description":"In Talkyard, versions v0.04.01 through v0.6.74-WIP-63220cb, v0.2020.22-WIP-b2e97fe0e through v0.2021.02-WIP-879ef3fe1 and tyse-v0.2021.02-879ef3fe1-regular through tyse-v0.2021.28-af66b6905-regular, are vulnerable to Host Header Injection. By luring a victim application-user to click on a link, an unauthenticated attacker can use the “forgot password” functionality to reset the victim’s password and successfully take over their account.","published":"2021-11-11T07:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:42:43.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"vulnerabilitylab@mend.io","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-74"],"affected":["talkyard/talkyard"],"epss":{"score":0.01251,"percentile":0.6923,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.25%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/debiki/talkyard/commit/4067e191a909ed06f250d09a40e43aa5edbb0289","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"vulnerabilitylab@mend.io"},{"url":"https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25980","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"vulnerabilitylab@mend.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/debiki/talkyard/commit/4067e191a909ed06f250d09a40e43aa5edbb0289","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25980","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25980","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}