CVE-2023-28440

low

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request from a Discourse administrator can lead to a long-running request and eventual timeout. This has the greatest potential impact in shared hosting environments where admins are untrusted. This issue has been addressed in versions 3.0.3 and 3.1.0.beta4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-vm65-pv5h-6g3w

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-04-18

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.7

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

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00589