PT-2023-27524

CVE-2023-40588

Published

2023-09-15

Updated

2024-03-06

Description by

CVSS 3.1

6.5

Medium

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Discourse versions prior to 3.1.1 Discourse version 3.2.0.beta1 and earlier in the beta and tests-passed branches

Description A malicious user could add a 2FA or security key with a carefully crafted name to their account, causing a denial of service for other users.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.1.1, update to version 3.1.1 or later. For version 3.2.0.beta1 and earlier in the beta and tests-passed branches, update to version 3.2.0.beta1 or later.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Jomaxro

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Related identifiers

CVE-2023-40588