CVE-2021-43850

Summary

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions admins users can trigger a Denial of Service attack via the /message-bus/_diagnostics path. The impact of this vulnerability is greater on multisite Discourse instances (where multiple forums are served from a single application server) where any admin user on any of the forums are able to visit the /message-bus/_diagnostics path. The problem has been patched. Please upgrade to 2.8.0.beta10 or 2.7.12. No workarounds for this issue exist.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
discoursediscourse< 2.7.12affected
discoursediscourse>= 2.8.0.beta, < 2.8.0.beta10affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References