Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 4, 2025· Updated Feb 12, 2025
Anonymous cache poisoning via request headers in Discourse
CVE-2025-23023
Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can carefully craft a request with the right request headers to poison the anonymous cache (for example, the cache may have a response with missing preloaded data). This issue only affects anonymous visitors of the site. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable anonymous cache by setting the DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE environment variable to a non-empty value.
Affected products
1- Range: stable: < 3.3.2
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
1- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-5h4h-2f46-r3c7mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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