CVE-2023-38684

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38684
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-38684.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-38684
Aliases
Published
2023-07-28T15:25:41.132Z
Modified
2026-04-10T04:59:09.374185Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
Discourse vulnerable to ossible DDoS due to unbounded limits in various controller actions
Details

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper bound on the values being accepted. Without an upper bound, the software may allow arbitrary users to generate DB queries which may end up exhausting the resources on the server. The issue is patched in version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/38xxx/CVE-2023-38684.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/discourse/discourse

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/discourse/discourse
Events
Introduced
17daf077e2f11def391859f83d294bb71760b1cf
Fixed
263afe6b6a9d36ac9512cc32f82a4f7a53f0ee7e
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.1.0.beta1"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.1.0.beta7"
        }
    ]
}
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/discourse/discourse
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
c35038b00ba7c6d6534a538ea211b84d54fa0656
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.0.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.8.0
v0.8.1
v0.8.2
v0.8.3
v0.8.4
v0.8.5
v0.8.6
v0.8.7
v0.8.8
v0.8.9
v0.9.0
v0.9.1
v0.9.2
v0.9.2.5
v0.9.2.6
v0.9.3
v0.9.4
v0.9.5
v0.9.5.1
v0.9.5.2
v0.9.6
v0.9.6.1
v0.9.6.3
v0.9.6.4
v0.9.7
v0.9.7.1
v0.9.7.2
v0.9.7.3
v0.9.7.4
v0.9.7.5
v0.9.7.6
v0.9.7.7
v0.9.7.8
v0.9.7.9
v0.9.8
v0.9.8.1
v0.9.8.10
v0.9.8.11
v0.9.8.2
v0.9.8.3
v0.9.8.4
v0.9.8.5
v0.9.8.6
v0.9.8.7
v0.9.8.8
v0.9.8.9
v0.9.9.1
v0.9.9.10
v0.9.9.11
v0.9.9.12
v0.9.9.13
v0.9.9.14
v0.9.9.15
v0.9.9.16
v0.9.9.17
v0.9.9.18
v0.9.9.2
v0.9.9.3
v0.9.9.4
v0.9.9.5
v0.9.9.6
v0.9.9.7
v0.9.9.8
v0.9.9.9
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.0.3
v1.0.4
v1.1.0
v1.1.1
v1.1.2
v1.1.3
v1.2.0
v1.2.1
v1.2.2
v1.2.3
v1.2.4
v1.3.0
v1.3.1
v1.3.2
v1.3.3
v1.3.4
v1.3.5
v1.4.0
v1.4.1
v1.4.2
v1.4.3
v1.4.4
v1.4.5
v1.4.6
v1.4.7
v1.5.0
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.5.3
v1.5.4
v1.6.0
v1.6.1
v1.6.10
v1.6.2
v1.6.3
v1.6.4
v1.6.5
v1.6.6
v1.6.7
v1.6.8
v1.6.9
v1.7.0
v1.7.1
v1.7.10
v1.7.2
v1.7.3
v1.7.4
v1.7.5
v1.7.6
v1.7.7
v1.7.8
v1.7.9
v1.8.0
v1.8.1
v1.8.10
v1.8.11
v1.8.2
v1.8.3
v1.8.4
v1.8.5
v1.8.6
v1.8.7
v1.8.8
v1.8.9
v1.9.0
v1.9.1
v1.9.2
v1.9.3
v1.9.4
v1.9.5
v1.9.6
v1.9.7
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.0.2
v2.0.3
v2.0.4
v2.0.5
v2.1.0
v2.1.1
v2.1.2
v2.1.3
v2.1.4
v2.1.5
v2.1.6
v2.1.7
v2.1.8
v2.2.0
v2.2.1
v2.2.2
v2.2.3
v2.2.4
v2.2.5
v2.2.6
v2.3.0
v2.3.1
v2.3.10
v2.3.2
v2.3.3
v2.3.4
v2.3.5
v2.3.6
v2.3.7
v2.3.8
v2.3.9
v2.4.0
v2.4.1
v2.4.2
v2.4.3
v2.4.4
v2.4.5
v2.5.0
v2.5.1
v2.5.2
v2.5.3
v2.5.4
v2.5.5
v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.6.3
v2.6.4
v2.6.5
v2.6.6
v2.6.7
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.7.10
v2.7.11
v2.7.12
v2.7.13
v2.7.2
v2.7.3
v2.7.4
v2.7.5
v2.7.6
v2.7.7
v2.7.8
v2.7.9
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.8.10
v2.8.11
v2.8.12
v2.8.13
v2.8.14
v2.8.2
v2.8.3
v2.8.4
v2.8.5
v2.8.6
v2.8.7
v2.8.8
v2.8.9
v3.*
v3.0.0
v3.0.1
v3.0.2
v3.0.3
v3.0.4
v3.0.5
v3.1.0.beta1
v3.1.0.beta2
v3.1.0.beta3
v3.1.0.beta4
v3.1.0.beta5
v3.1.0.beta6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-38684.json"