CVE-2023-28440

Published Apr 18, 2023

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
security-advisories@github.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
2.7
Impact score
1.4
Exploitability score
1.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Severity
LOW

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-noinfo
security-advisories@github.com
CWE-400

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations