BIT-discourse-2023-45806
See a problem?- Import Source
- https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/discourse/BIT-discourse-2023-45806.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/BIT-discourse-2023-45806
- Aliases
- Published
- 2024-03-06T10:52:56.903Z
- Modified
- 2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z
- Summary
- Discourse vulnerable to DoS via Regexp Injection in Full Name
- Details
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Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Prior to version 3.1.3 of the
stablebranch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of thebetaandtests-passedbranches, 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 thestablebranch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of thebetaandtests-passedbranches 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. - Database specific
{ "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:beta:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.2.0:beta1:*:*:beta:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.2.0:beta2:*:*:beta:*:*:*" ], "severity": "Medium" }- References
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- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2ec25105179199cf80912bf011c18b8b870e1863
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7d484864fe91ff79c478f57e7ddb1235d701921e
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-hcgf-hg2g-mw78
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45806
Affected packages
Bitnami / discourse
Package
- Name
- discourse
- Purl
- pkg:bitnami/discourse
Severity
- 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator