CVE-2021-43850

Published

Severity

CVSS v3:
6.8 MEDIUM
CVSS v2:
4 MEDIUM

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions admins users can trigger a Denial of Service attack via the `/message-bus/_diagnostics` path. The impact of this vulnerability is greater on multisite Discourse instances (where multiple forums are served from a single application server) where any admin user on any of the forums are able to visit the `/message-bus/_diagnostics` path. The problem has been patched. Please upgrade to 2.8.0.beta10 or 2.7.12. No workarounds for this issue exist.

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Configurations

CPE23Version StartVersion EndExact Version
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*n/an/a2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*n/an/a2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*n/an/a2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*n/an/a2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*n/an/a2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta6:*:*:*:*:*:*n/an/a2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta7:*:*:*:*:*:*n/an/a2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta9:*:*:*:*:*:*n/an/a2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta8:*:*:*:*:*:*n/an/a2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*n/a2.7.12*

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