CVE-2025-48053

Summary

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.4.4 of the stable branch, version 3.5.0.beta5 of the beta branch, and version 3.5.0.beta6-dev of the tests-passed branch, sending a malicious URL in a PM to a bot user can cause a reduced the availability of a Discourse instance. This issue is patched in version 3.4.4 of the stable branch, version 3.5.0.beta5 of the beta branch, and version 3.5.0.beta6-dev of the tests-passed branch. No known workarounds are available.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
discoursediscourse< 3.4.4affected
discoursediscourse< 3.5.0.beta5affected
discoursediscourse< 3.5.0.beta6-devaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References