CVE-2023-44388

Published: Oct 16, 2023Modified: Nov 21, 2024

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (2)

Products: Discourse: Discourse

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Discourse Discourse	Up to 3.1.1
Discourse Discourse	Version 3.2.0 beta1

Related CWEs

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (4)

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_max_body_size

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-89h3-g746-xmwq

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Vendor Advisory

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_max_body_size

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-89h3-g746-xmwq

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

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