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CVE-2023-30606 (GCVE-0-2023-30606)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-18 21:36 – Updated: 2025-02-06 16:37
VLAI
Title
Multisite denial of service through unsanitized dynamic dispatch to SiteSetting in Discourse
Summary
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.
Severity
4.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-06 16:37 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
discourse discourse Affected: stable: < 3.0.2
Affected: beta: < 3.1.0.beta3
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