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CVE-2022-23548

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CVE-2022-23548

Published: Jan 5, 2023

Modified: Mar 10, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta16 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, parsing posts can be susceptible to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attacks. This issue is patched in versions 2.8.14 and 2.9.0.beta16. There are no known workarounds.

VendorProductVersions

discourse

discourse

affected
< 2.8.14
affected
>= 2.9.0.beta0, < 2.9.0.beta16

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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