CVE-2021-43850
Denial of Service in discourse
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.8 Medium
- Published
- Jan 4, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 22, 2025
- Reserved
- Nov 16, 2021
Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions admins users can trigger a Denial of Service attack via the `/message-bus/_diagnostics` path. The impact of this vulnerability is greater on multisite Discourse instances (where multiple forums are served from a single application server) where any admin user on any of the forums are able to visit the `/message-bus/_diagnostics` path. The problem has been patched. Please upgrade to 2.8.0.beta10 or 2.7.12. No workarounds for this issue exist.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.8 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
discoursediscourse |
|
References
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