Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request from a Discourse administrator can lead to a long-running request and eventual timeout. This has the greatest potential impact in shared hosting environments where admins are untrusted. This issue has been addressed in versions 3.0.3 and 3.1.0.beta4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low
User Interaction None
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2025-02-06T16:29:37.700Z
Reserved: 2023-03-15T15:59:10.055Z
Link: CVE-2023-28440

Updated: 2024-08-02T12:38:25.355Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2023-04-18T21:15:09.180
Modified: 2024-11-21T07:55:04.317
Link: CVE-2023-28440

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