CVE-2023-45806 (GCVE-0-2023-45806)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-10 14:43 – Updated: 2024-09-03 17:43
VLAI
Title
Discourse vulnerable to DoS via Regexp Injection in Full Name
Summary
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Prior to version 3.1.3 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, if a user has been quoted and uses a `|` in their full name, they might be able to trigger a bug that generates a lot of duplicate content in all the posts they've been quoted by updating their full name again. Version 3.1.3 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches contain a patch for this issue. No known workaround exists, although one can stop the "bleeding" by ensuring users only use alphanumeric characters in their full name field.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-03 17:40 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7812 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
discourse discourse Affected: < 3.1.3
Affected: >= 3.2.0.beta0, < 3.2.0.beta3
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