CVE-2023-36818

Denial of service via User Custom Sidebar Section Unlimited Link Creation in discourse

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jul 14, 2023
Updated: Oct 18, 2024
Reserved: Jun 27, 2023

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a request to create or update custom sidebar section can cause a denial of service. This issue has been patched in commit `52b003d915`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	= 3.1.0beta5Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-gxqx-3q2p-37gm
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/52b003d915761f1581ae2d105f3cbe76df7bf1ff

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