Discourse up to 2.8.7 Email Address resource consumption
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Discourse up to 2.8.7. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Email Address Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
Discourse through 2.8.7 allows admins to send invitations to arbitrary email addresses at an unlimited rate.
The weakness was shared 09/02/2022 as GHSA-q2rg-m477-8wg7. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-37458 since 08/07/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
Product
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Support
- end of life (old version)
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.8VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8
VulDB Base Score: 2.4
VulDB Temp Score: 2.4
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NVD Base Score: 7.2
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Resource consumptionCWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: No
Remote: Partially
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
08/07/2022 🔍09/02/2022 🔍
09/02/2022 🔍
10/11/2022 🔍
Sources
Advisory: GHSA-q2rg-m477-8wg7Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2022-37458 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 09/02/2022 16:46Updated: 10/11/2022 15:01
Changes: 09/02/2022 16:46 (38), 10/11/2022 15:01 (11)
Complete: 🔍
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