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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD2.7 Low

CVE-2023-28440

Denial of service via admin theme import route in Discourse

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

discourse discourse

  • stable: <= 3.0.2affected
  • beta: <= 3.1.0.beta3affected

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