PT-2023-26478

CVE-2023-38498

Published

2023-07-28

Updated

2024-03-06

Description by

CVSS 3.1

4.3

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Discourse versions prior to 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches

Description A malicious user can prevent the defer queue from proceeding promptly on sites hosted in the same multisite installation. The issue affects Discourse, an open source discussion platform. Users of multisite configurations are at risk.

Recommendations For Discourse versions prior to 3.0.6 of the stable branch, upgrade to version 3.0.6. For Discourse versions prior to 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, upgrade to version 3.1.0.beta7.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Jomaxro

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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