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CVE-2023-47120

Discourse DoS through Onebox favicon URL

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.1.3, 3.2.0.beta3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In versions 3.1.0 through 3.1.2 of the `stable` branch and versions 3.1.0,beta6 through 3.2.0.beta2 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, Redis memory can be depleted by crafting a site with an abnormally long favicon URL and drafting multiple posts which Onebox it. The issue is patched in version 3.1.3 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • discourse discourse

    From 3.1.0 · fixed in 3.1.3; From 3.1.0.beta6 · fixed in 3.2.0.beta3

References 3

GitHub · discourse/discourse