cve-2023-25167
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-08 19:31
Modified
2024-08-02 11:18
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a malicious user can cause a regular expression denial of service using a carefully crafted git URL. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ec4c30270887366dc28788bc4ab8a22a098573cdPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4w55-w26q-r35wVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ec4c30270887366dc28788bc4ab8a22a098573cdPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4w55-w26q-r35wVendor Advisory
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