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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2023-22740 EUVD-2023-26858

Discourse vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits via Chat drafts

Published Jan 27, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.1.0.beta1 (beta) (tests-passed) are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Users can create chat drafts of an unlimited length, which can cause a denial of service by generating an excessive load on the server. Additionally, an unlimited number of drafts were loaded when loading the user. This issue has been patched in version 2.1.0.beta1 (beta) and (tests-passed). Users should upgrade to the latest version where a limit has been introduced. There are no workarounds available.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse beta < 3.1.0.beta1; tests-passed < 3.1.0.beta1 —

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