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.
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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 Products (20)
Affected Vendors
References (2)
48
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
14/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
1/34 · Minimal
Exposure
33/34 · Critical