CVE-2023-44388 HIGH

CVE-2023-44388: Malicious requests can fill up the log files resulting in a deinal of service in Discourse

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-400
Published October 16, 2023
Last update September 16, 2024
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CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A malicious request can cause production log files to quickly fill up and thus result in the server running out of disk space. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. It is possible to temporarily work around this problem by reducing the `client_max_body_size nginx directive`. `client_max_body_size` will limit the size of uploads that can be uploaded directly to the server.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 16, 2023 CVE published
September 16, 2024 Record updated