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CVE-2023-25167 (GCVE-0-2023-25167)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-08 19:31 – Updated: 2025-03-10 21:14
VLAI
Title
Regular expression denial of service via installing themes via git in discourse
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-10 20:58 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
discourse discourse Affected: < 3.0.1
Affected: >= 3.1.0.beta, < 3.1.0.beta2
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