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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2023-37906 EUVD-2023-41771

Discourse vulnerable to DoS via post edit reason

Published Jul 28, 2023 · Updated Oct 10, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious user can edit a post in a topic and cause a DoS with a carefully crafted edit reason. The issue is patched in version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse >= 3.1.0.beta1, < 3.1.0.beta7, < 3.0.6 —

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