CVE-2023-44388

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A malicious request can cause production log files to quickly fill up and thus result in the server running out of disk space. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. It is possible to temporarily work around this problem by reducing the `client_max_body_size nginx directive`. `client_max_body_size` will limit the size of uploads that can be uploaded directly to the server.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_max_body_size	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-89h3-g746-xmwq	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::stable:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.2.0:beta1:::beta:::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2023-10-16 22:15

Updated : 2023-10-20 17:32

NVD link : CVE-2023-44388

Mitre link : CVE-2023-44388

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-44388

JSON object : View

Products Affected

discourse

discourse

CWE

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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