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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2021-43794 EUVD-2021-30690

Anonymous user cache poisoning via development-mode header in Discourse

Published Dec 1, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an attacker can poison the cache for anonymous (i.e. not logged in) users, such that the users are shown a JSON blob instead of the HTML page. This can lead to a partial denial-of-service. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse stable < 2.7.11, beta < 2.8.0.beta9, tests-passed < 2.8.0.beta9 —

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