CVE-2023-28440 LOW

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

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-400
Published April 18, 2023
Last update February 6, 2025
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CVSS base score

2.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 18, 2023 CVE published
February 6, 2025 Record updated