CVE-2024-47773 — Anonymous cache poisoning via XHR requests in Discourse

CVE-2024-47773

Anonymous cache poisoning via XHR requests in Discourse PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. An attacker can make several XHR requests until the cache is poisoned with a response without any preloaded data. This issue only affects anonymous visitors of the site. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable anonymous cache by setting the `DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE` environment variable to a non-empty value.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
discourse / discourse	affected stable: < 3.3.2; affected tests-passed: < 3.4.0.beta2

CWE

CWE-610

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-58vv-9j8h-hw2v

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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