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Medium · 4.5 CVE-2023-28107 EUVD-2023-31827

Discourse vulnerable to multisite DoS by spamming backups

Published Mar 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 25, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.2 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a user logged as an administrator can request backups multiple times, which will eat up all the connections to the DB. If this is done on a site using multisite, then it can affect the whole cluster. The vulnerability is patched in version 3.0.2 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse stable < 3.0.2, beta < 3.1.0.beta3, tests-passed < 3.1.0.beta3 —

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