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Discourse 2.9.x < 2.9.0.beta2 DoS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
2 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
Discourse is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
Users can trigger a DoS attack by posting a streaming URL. Parsing Oneboxes in the background job is triggering an infinite loop which is causing memory leaks.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Discourse version 2.9.0.beta1.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 2.9.0.beta2 or later.