CVE-2022-31182
Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in Discourse
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Aug 1, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Reserved
- May 18, 2022
Description
Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request for static assets could cause error responses to be cached by Discourse's default NGINX proxy configuration. A corrected NGINX configuration is included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
discoursediscourse |
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References
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