CVE-2023-45806

medium

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Prior to version 3.1.3 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, if a user has been quoted and uses a `|` in their full name, they might be able to trigger a bug that generates a lot of duplicate content in all the posts they've been quoted by updating their full name again. Version 3.1.3 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches contain a patch for this issue. No known workaround exists, although one can stop the "bleeding" by ensuring users only use alphanumeric characters in their full name field.

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-hcgf-hg2g-mw78

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7d484864fe91ff79c478f57e7ddb1235d701921e

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2ec25105179199cf80912bf011c18b8b870e1863

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-11-10

Updated: 2023-11-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium