Discourse membership requests lack character limit
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.5epss 0.7%
exploitation probability
0.7%top 51% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the `stable` branch and 3.1.0.beta2 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, when submitting a membership request, there is no character limit for the reason provided with the request. This could potentially allow a user to flood the database with a large amount of data. However it is unlikely this could be used as part of a DoS attack, as the paths reading back the reasons are only available to administrators. Starting in version 3.0.1 on the `stable` branch and 3.1.0.beta2 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a limit of 280 characters has been introduced for membership requests.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
discourse · discourseReferences
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3e0cc4a5d9ef44ad902f6985d046ebb32f0a14eehttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d5745d34c20c31a221039d8913f33064433003eahttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/19993https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-6xff-p329-9pgf