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
1- Range: < 2.7.12
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
2- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7a8ec129fb54f188b2da6588c9d24d3a36eb0d39mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-59jr-pj65-qmvrmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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