Hi, I’m getting messages from our central IT complaining that our Discourse instance is triggering a security warning on CVE-2021-41163, which regards the /webhooks/aws endpoint. I’ve told them that we’ve kept the software up to date since 2021 (we do a “launcher app rebuild” every month automatic…

Sounds like a bad CISO then… :roll_eyes: File a bug report at the scanner corp?

[image] rbos: So I’m pretty sure their scanner is just mis-parsing the version string, It shouldn’t be too hard to explain to them that there is a new versioning scheme and their scanner doesn’t understand? Which is the same reason why Microsoft skipped Windows 9. Esp since you can prove tha…

You would really think so. I’ve done that three times, but scanner says bad therefore bad.

CVE-2021-41163 false positive

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) January 6, 2026, 10:23pm 4

Sounds like a bad CISO then…

File a bug report at the scanner corp?

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