CVE-2022-31184

Published: Aug 1, 2022

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually rate limit email.

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-770

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-m5w9-8gp8-2hrf

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/af1cb735db7fb73217b85d22dbadd1bc824ac0b0

x_refsource_MISC

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CVE-2022-31184

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References