Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 8, 2023· Updated Mar 10, 2025
Regular expression denial of service via installing themes via git in discourse
CVE-2023-25167
Description
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a malicious user can cause a regular expression denial of service using a carefully crafted git URL. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
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Affected products
3(expand)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: < 3.0.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ec4c30270887366dc28788bc4ab8a22a098573cdmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4w55-w26q-r35wmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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