TruDesk Help Desk/Ticketing Solution v1.1.11 is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack which would allow an attacker to restart the server, causing a DoS attack. The attacker must craft a webpage that would perform a GET request to the /api/v1/admin/restart endpoint, then the victim (who has sufficient privileges), would visit the page and the server restart would begin. The attacker must know the full URL that TruDesk is on in order to craft the webpage.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2021-45785 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.25%).Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB).Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2021-45785
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2021-45785
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).