CVE-2023-22740

Discourse vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits via Chat drafts

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.1.0.beta1 (beta) (tests-passed) are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Users can create chat drafts of an unlimited length, which can cause a denial of service by generating an excessive load on the server. Additionally, an unlimited number of drafts were loaded when loading the user. This issue has been patched in version 2.1.0.beta1 (beta) and (tests-passed). Users should upgrade to the latest version where a limit has been introduced. There are no workarounds available.

We have discovered 1,186 live websites that are affected by CVE-2023-22740.

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Affected Software

Product  Discourse
Category Message Boards
Vulnerable Domains1,186 live websites (22.70% of Discourse install base)
Vulnerable Versions
  • from 0 before 3.1
Vulnerable Versions Count78 versions ( 82.11% of all versions)


Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling



Details

  • Published - Jan 27, 2023
  • Updated - Aug 2, 2024

CVE-2023-22740 usage by Country

United States810 websites


Germany100 websites
France55 websites
Singapore35 websites
China26 websites
GB18 websites
Brazil11 websites
Netherlands11 websites
Switzerland10 websites

CVE-2023-22740 usage by TLD

.com497 websites
.org193 websites
.io59 websites
.net51 websites
.de25 websites
.fr15 websites
.co14 websites
.eu12 websites
.ru12 websites
.com.br10 websites

Vulnerable Versions

Vulnerable versions are highlighted in red

Websites affected by CVE-2023-22740

Top websites that are affected by CVE-2023-22740. Please click on the "Contact us" link to get more information.
DomainCountryRankContacts
*********.***.com France*,***
*********.*******.org United States**,***
******.********.com United States**,***
*********.***************.com United States**,***
*********.**********.de Germany***,***
*********.*********.com ***,***
*********.**********.io United States***,***
***.***********.org Germany***,***
*****.******.com United States***,***
***********.net United States***,***
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FAQ

CVE-2023-22740 is Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Discourse
A total of 1,186 websites have been identified as vulnerable to CVE-2023-22740, discovered through global website indexing conducted by WebTechSurvey.
Discourse is susceptible to CVE-2023-22740 vulnerability.
Discourse versions before 3.1 are vulnerable to CVE-2023-22740.
Version 3.1 of Discourse addresses the CVE-2023-22740 security vulnerability.