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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:05

Modified

2025-11-06 13:25

Summary

Email activation route can be abused by spammers in Discourse

Details

Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually rate limit email.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
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            {
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            },
            {
              "last_affected": "2.8.6"
            }
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          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-31184"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta6:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta7:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually rate limit email.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2022-31184",
  "modified": "2025-11-06T13:25:46.476Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:05:15.202Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/af1cb735db7fb73217b85d22dbadd1bc824ac0b0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-m5w9-8gp8-2hrf"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31184"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Email activation route can be abused by spammers in Discourse"
}

CVE-2022-31184 (GCVE-0-2022-31184)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-01 19:40 – Updated: 2025-04-23 17:55

Title

Email activation route can be abused by spammers in Discourse

Summary

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/af1…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	discourse	discourse	Affected: < 2.8.7 Affected: < 2.9.0.beta8

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2022-31184 (GCVE-0-2022-31184)

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