FKIE_CVE-2025-68934

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-28 20:16 - Updated: 2026-01-30 20:47
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, authenticated users can submit crafted payloads to /drafts.json that cause O(n^2) processing in Base62.decode, tying up workers for 35-60 seconds per request. This affects all users as the shared worker pool becomes exhausted. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. Lowering the max_draft_length site setting reduces attack surface but does not fully mitigate the issue, as payloads under the limit can still trigger the slow code path.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-vwjh-vrx9-9849Third Party Advisory, Mitigation
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse *
discourse discourse *
discourse discourse 2025.12.0
discourse discourse 2026.1.0
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