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CVE-2022-39281: Remote Denial of Service via Tasks endpoint in fat_free_crm

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-10-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

fat_free_crm is a an open source, Ruby on Rails customer relationship management platform (CRM). In versions prior to 0.20.1 an authenticated user can perform a remote Denial of Service attack against Fat Free CRM via bucket access. The vulnerability has been patched in commit `c85a254` and will be available in release `0.20.1`. Users are advised to upgrade or to manually apply patch `c85a254`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected products

• fatfreecrm fat_free_crm: before 0.20.1 — fixed in 0.20.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: fatfreecrm fat_free_crm 0.20.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm/commit/c85a2546348c2692d32f952c753f7f0b43d1ca71
• https://github.com/fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm/releases/tag/v0.20.1
• https://github.com/fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm/security/advisories/GHSA-p75c-5x3h-cxcg
• https://github.com/fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm/commit/c85a2546348c2692d32f952c753f7f0b43d1ca71
• https://github.com/fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm/releases/tag/v0.20.1
• https://github.com/fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm/security/advisories/GHSA-p75c-5x3h-cxcg

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