Security Advisory

CVE-2023-22740

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-01-27 00:39:52
Last updated 2025-03-10 21:18:54
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.1.0.beta1 (beta) (tests-passed) are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Users can create chat drafts of an unlimited length, which can cause a denial of service by generating an excessive load on the server. Additionally, an unlimited number of drafts were loaded when loading the user. This issue has been patched in version 2.1.0.beta1 (beta) and (tests-passed). Users should upgrade to the latest version where a limit has been introduced. There are no workarounds available.