CVE-2022-24824
Anonymous user cache poisoning in discourse
5.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.38%
Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can poison the cache for anonymous (i.e. not logged in) users, such that the users are shown the crawler view of the site instead of the HTML page. This can lead to a partial denial-of-service. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
How to fix CVE-2022-24824
To remediate CVE-2022-24824, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.8.3 or later
Is CVE-2022-24824 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.8.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |