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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.147640
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Discourse 2.9.x < 2.9.0.beta2 DoS Vulnerability
Summary:Discourse is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Discourse is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Users can trigger a DoS attack by posting a streaming URL.
Parsing Oneboxes in the background job is triggering an infinite loop which is causing memory
leaks.

Affected Software/OS:
Discourse version 2.9.0.beta1.

Solution:
Update to version 2.9.0.beta2 or later.

CVSS Score:
4.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-23641
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-22xw-f62v-cfxv
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a34075d205a8857e29574ffd82aaece0c467565e
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/15927
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