CVE-2023-28107

Summary

CVECVE-2023-28107
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-03-17 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-03-23 20:53:00 UTC
DescriptionDiscourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.2 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a user logged as an administrator can request backups multiple times, which will eat up all the connections to the DB. If this is done on a site using multisite, then it can affect the whole cluster. The vulnerability is patched in version 3.0.2 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Discourse Discourse All All All All
Application Discourse Discourse 3.1.0 beta1 All All
Application Discourse Discourse 3.1.0 beta2 All All
Application Discourse Discourse All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SECURITY: Rate limit the creation of backups · discourse/discourse@0bd6478 · GitHub MISC github.com
SECURITY: Rate limit the creation of backups by Flink · Pull Request #20700 · discourse/discourse · GitHub MISC github.com
Multisite DoS by spamming backups · Advisory · discourse/discourse · GitHub MISC github.com
SECURITY: Rate limit the creation of backups by Flink · Pull Request #20701 · discourse/discourse · GitHub MISC github.com
SECURITY: Rate limit the creation of backups · discourse/discourse@78a3efa · GitHub MISC github.com
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