CVE-2025-23023 HIGH

CVE-2025-23023: Anonymous cache poisoning via request headers in Discourse

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-346 · Origin validation
Published February 4, 2025
Last update February 12, 2025

CVSS base score

8.2/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can carefully craft a request with the right request headers to poison the anonymous cache (for example, the cache may have a response with missing preloaded data). This issue only affects anonymous visitors of the site. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable anonymous cache by setting the `DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE` environment variable to a non-empty value.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 4, 2025 CVE published
February 12, 2025 Record updated