CVE-2022-31182

Published: Aug 1, 2022

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request for static assets could cause error responses to be cached by Discourse's default NGINX proxy configuration. A corrected NGINX configuration is included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Vendor	Product	Versions
discourse	discourse	affected `< 2.8.7` affected `< 2.9.0.beta8`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-404

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4ff8-3j78-w6pp

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7af25544c3940c4d046c51f4cfac9c72a06d4f50

x_refsource_MISC

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CVE-2022-31182

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References