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Appsmith server, can be fooled into restarting itself over and over, leading to denial of service

Moderate
mohanarpit published GHSA-6mc8-hw5c-7qqr Mar 25, 2025

Package

appsmith/appsmith-ee (DockerHub)

Affected versions

<=v1.50

Patched versions

>=v1.51

Description

A user on Appsmith that doesn't have admin permissions can trigger the restart API on Appsmith, triggering a server restart. This is still within the Appsmith container, and the impact is limited to Appsmith's own server only. This is due to incorrect access control checks, which should check for super user permissions on the incoming request.

No information loss or untrusted code execution happens.

The attacker should be able to access Appsmith, and login to it.

Impact

Denial of Service.

Patches

Fixed in v1.51.

Workarounds

None.

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2024-55963

Weaknesses