CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-23621
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-01-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
Description
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious user can cause a regular expression denial of service using a carefully crafted user agent. This issue is patched in version 3.0.1 on the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds.
Affected configurations
• discourse discourse (< 3.0.1)
• discourse discourse 1.1.0
• discourse discourse 1.2.0
• discourse discourse 1.3.0
• discourse discourse 1.4.0
• discourse discourse 1.5.0
• discourse discourse 1.6.0
• discourse discourse 1.7.0
• discourse discourse 1.8.0
• discourse discourse 1.9.0
• discourse discourse 2.0.0
• discourse discourse 2.1.0
• discourse discourse 2.2.0
• discourse discourse 2.3.0
• discourse discourse 2.4.0
• discourse discourse 2.5.0
• discourse discourse 2.6.0
• discourse discourse 2.7.0
• discourse discourse 2.8.0
• discourse discourse 2.9.0
• discourse discourse 3.0.0
• discourse discourse 3.1.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6d92c3cbdac431db99a450f360a3048bb3aaf458 Patch
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20002 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-mrfp-54hf-jrcv Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6d92c3cbdac431db99a450f360a3048bb3aaf458 Patch
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20002 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-mrfp-54hf-jrcv Third Party Advisory