CVE-2023-28440 — Denial of service via admin theme import route in Discourse

Description (CNA)

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request from a Discourse administrator can lead to a long-running request and eventual timeout. This has the greatest potential impact in shared hosting environments where admins are untrusted. This issue has been addressed in versions 3.0.3 and 3.1.0.beta4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
discourse / discourse	affected stable: <= 3.0.2; affected beta: <= 3.1.0.beta3

CWE

CWE-400

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-vm65-pv5h-6g3w

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-vm65-pv5h-6g3w

CISA-ADP

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