CVE-2023-25167 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00724.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Discourse	Discourse

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.1.0:beta1:::beta:::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-29135	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ec4c30270887366dc28788bc4ab8a22a098573cd
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4w55-w26q-r35w

History

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-02-08T19:31:59.994Z

Updated: 2025-03-10T21:14:33.388Z

Reserved: 2023-02-03T16:59:18.246Z

Link: CVE-2023-25167

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T11:18:35.654Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-08T20:15:25.100

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:49:14.367

Link: CVE-2023-25167

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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