CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-38684

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-07-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-07-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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-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, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper bound on the values being accepted. Without an upper bound, the software may allow arbitrary users to generate DB queries which may end up exhausting the resources on the server. 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