CVE-2023-22739

Discourse subject to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jan 26, 2023
Updated: Mar 10, 2025
Reserved: Jan 6, 2023

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.0.1 (stable), 3.1.0.beta2 (beta), and 3.1.0.beta2 (tests-passed) are subject to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. As there is no limit on data contained in a draft, a malicious user can create an arbitrarily large draft, forcing the instance to a crawl. This issue is patched in versions 3.0.1 (stable), 3.1.0.beta2 (beta), and 3.1.0.beta2 (tests-passed). There are no workarounds.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	stable < 3.0.1Affected beta < 3.1.0.beta2Affected tests-passed <3.1.0.beta2Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-rqgr-g6v7-jcfc

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