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Medium · 4.2 CVE-2023-30606 EUVD-2023-34985

Multisite denial of service through unsanitized dynamic dispatch to SiteSetting in Discourse

Published Apr 18, 2023 · Updated Feb 6, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a user logged as an administrator can call arbitrary methods on the `SiteSetting` class, notably `#clear_cache!` and `#notify_changed!`, which when done on a multisite instance, can affect the entire cluster resulting in a denial of service. Users not running in multisite environments are not affected. This issue is patched 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 stable: < 3.0.2, beta: < 3.1.0.beta3 —

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