Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 18, 2023· Updated Feb 6, 2025
Denial of service via admin theme import route in Discourse
CVE-2023-28440
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.
Affected products
1- Range: stable: <= 3.0.2
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
1- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-vm65-pv5h-6g3wmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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