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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 4, 2022· Updated Apr 22, 2025

Denial of Service in discourse

CVE-2021-43850

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions admins users can trigger a Denial of Service attack via the /message-bus/_diagnostics path. The impact of this vulnerability is greater on multisite Discourse instances (where multiple forums are served from a single application server) where any admin user on any of the forums are able to visit the /message-bus/_diagnostics path. The problem has been patched. Please upgrade to 2.8.0.beta10 or 2.7.12. No workarounds for this issue exist.

Affected products

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Patches

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No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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