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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2022-31182 EUVD-2022-52779

Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in Discourse

Published Aug 1, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse < 2.8.7, < 2.9.0.beta8 —

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