Headline
CVE-2023-30606: Multisite DoS through unsanitized dynamic dispatch to SiteSetting
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a user logged as an administrator can call arbitrary methods on the SiteSetting
class, notably #clear_cache!
and #notify_changed!
, which when done on a multisite instance, can affect the entire cluster resulting in a denial of service. Users not running in multisite environments are not affected. 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 vulnerability.
Package
No package listed
Affected versions
stable <= 3.0.1; beta <= 3.1.0.beta2; tests-passed <= 3.1.0.beta2
Patched versions
stable > 3.0.1; beta > 3.1.0.beta2; tests-passed > 3.1.0.beta2
Description
Impact
A user logged as an administrator can call arbitrary methods on the SiteSetting class, notably #clear_cache! and #notify_changed!, which when done on a multisite, can affect the entire cluster.
Patches
This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse.
Workarounds
None.