CVE-2023-22740 — Discourse vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits via Chat drafts
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.1.0.beta1 (beta) (tests-passed) are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Use…
Published: 2023-01-27 · CVSS: 4.3 · CVSS 3.1
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.1.0.beta1 (beta) (tests-passed) are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Users can create chat drafts of an unlimited length, which can cause a denial of service by generating an excessive load on the server. Additionally, an unlimited number of drafts were loaded when loading the user. This issue has been patched in version 2.1.0.beta1 (beta) and (tests-passed). Users should upgrade to the latest version where a limit has been introduced. There are no workarounds available.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7