CVE-2023-30606 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-30606: Multisite denial of service through unsanitized dynamic dispatch to SiteSetting in Discourse

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-732
Published April 18, 2023
Last update February 6, 2025

CVSS base score

4.2/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a user logged as an administrator can call arbitrary methods on the `SiteSetting` class, notably `#clear_cache!` and `#notify_changed!`, which when done on a multisite instance, can affect the entire cluster resulting in a denial of service. Users not running in multisite environments are not affected. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. 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