CVE-2023-44388

Malicious requests can fill up the log files resulting in a deinal of service in Discourse

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Oct 16, 2023
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Sep 28, 2023

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Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A malicious request can cause production log files to quickly fill up and thus result in the server running out of disk space. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. It is possible to temporarily work around this problem by reducing the `client_max_body_size nginx directive`. `client_max_body_size` will limit the size of uploads that can be uploaded directly to the server.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
discoursediscourse
  • stable <= 3.1.1Affected
  • beta <= 3.2.0.beta2Affected

References

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