CVE-2023-28440

moderate-risk
Published 2023-04-18

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.18% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 2.7/10 Low
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Vendors

48
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 14/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 33/34 · Critical