8.2
HIGH
CVE-2024-47773
Discourse Cache Poisoning Weakness
Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. An attacker can make several XHR requests until the cache is poisoned with a response without any preloaded data. This issue only affects anonymous visitors of the site. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable anonymous cache by setting the `DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE` environment variable to a non-empty value.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 8, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 10, 2024, 12:56 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

4.2

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-47773 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Discourse discourse
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-58vv-9j8h-hw2v

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-47773 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 08, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. An attacker can make several XHR requests until the cache is poisoned with a response without any preloaded data. This issue only affects anonymous visitors of the site. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable anonymous cache by setting the `DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE` environment variable to a non-empty value.
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-58vv-9j8h-hw2v [No types assigned]
    Added CWE GitHub, Inc. CWE-610
    Added CVSS V3.1 GitHub, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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