CVE-2021-22970 — concrete5/core
HIGHCVE-2021-22970 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in concrete5/core. A fix is available for concrete5/core — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Server-Side Request Forgery in Concrete CMS
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2021-22970 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,636 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
concrete5/coreReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) versions 8.5.6 and below and version 9.0.0 allow local IP importing causing the system to be vulnerable toa. SSRF attacks on the private LAN servers by reading files from the local LAN. An attacker can pivot in the private LAN and exploit local network appsandb. SSRF Mitigation Bypass through DNS RebindingConcrete CMS security team gave this a CVSS score of 3.5 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:NConcrete CMS is maintaining Concrete version 8.5.x until 1 May 2022 for security fixes.This CVE is shared with HackerOne Reports https://hackerone.com/reports/1364797 and https://hackerone.com/reports/1360016Reporters: Adrian Tiron from FORTBRIDGE (https://www.fortbridge.co.uk/ ) and Bipul Jaiswal
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | concrete5/core | all versions | 8.5.7composer require concrete5/core:^8.5.7 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for concrete5/core, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update concrete5/core to 8.5.7 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2021-22970 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2021-22970 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2021-22970. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2021-22970 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2021-22970 across Packagist dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.