Discourse Email Activation Route allocation of resources
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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Discourse (affected version unknown). This affects an unknown functionality of the component Email Activation Route. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:
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.
The weakness was disclosed 08/02/2022 as GHSA-m5w9-8gp8-2hrf. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-31184 since 05/18/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch af1cb735db7fb73217b85d22dbadd1bc824ac0b0 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.
Product
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License
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3
VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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CNA Base Score: 6.5
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Allocation of resourcesCWE: CWE-770 / CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Patch: af1cb735db7fb73217b85d22dbadd1bc824ac0b0
Timeline
05/18/2022 🔍08/02/2022 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: GHSA-m5w9-8gp8-2hrfStatus: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2022-31184 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 08/02/2022 07:18Changes: 08/02/2022 07:18 (49)
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Cache ID: 3:3EC:103
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