VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-28440

CVSS score2.7 LOW
EPSS probability0.69%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-04-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-400
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references