Vulnerability Details : CVE-2021-43850

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.
Published 2022-01-04 20:15:08
Updated 2022-01-14 02:50:54
Source GitHub, Inc.
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Input validationDenial of service

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2021-43850

EPSS FAQ
0.07%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 29 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2021-43850

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
4.0
 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
8.0
2.9
 NIST
6.8
 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.3
4.0
 NIST
6.8
 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.3
4.0
 GitHub, Inc.

CWE ids for CVE-2021-43850

  • The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
    Assigned by: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

References for CVE-2021-43850

Products affected by CVE-2021-43850

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