CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-37906
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-07-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious user can edit a post in a topic and cause a DoS with a carefully crafted edit reason. The issue is patched in version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• discourse discourse (< 3.0.6)
• 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-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dcc825bda505a344eda403a1b8733f30e784034a Patch
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-pjv6-47x6-mx7c Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dcc825bda505a344eda403a1b8733f30e784034a Patch
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-pjv6-47x6-mx7c Vendor Advisory