CVE-2023-38684 (GCVE-0-2023-38684)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-28 15:25
Modified
2024-10-10 16:03
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
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, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper bound on the values being accepted. Without an upper bound, the software may allow arbitrary users to generate DB queries which may end up exhausting the resources on the server. 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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse Version: >= 3.1.0.beta1, < 3.1.0.beta7
Version: < 3.0.6
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