cve-2022-31182
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-01 19:40
Modified
2025-04-23 17:56
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7af25544c3940c4d046c51f4cfac9c72a06d4f50Patch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4ff8-3j78-w6ppThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7af25544c3940c4d046c51f4cfac9c72a06d4f50Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4ff8-3j78-w6ppThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse Version: < 2.8.7
Version: < 2.9.0.beta8
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