What is CVE-2022-31184?

CVE-2022-31184 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-08-01.

How severe is CVE-2022-31184?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Discourse

CVE-2022-31184

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.

EPSS: 0.006 (43.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Discourse — versions < 2.8.7, 2.9.0, < 2.9.0.beta8

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-31184?: CVE-2022-31184 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-08-01.
How severe is CVE-2022-31184?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.