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low2.7

CVE-2023-28440

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion.

Impact

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

VendorProductAffected versions
DiscourseDiscourse
before 3.0.3
Versions 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0

Weakness classification

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