CVE-2023-37904 - CVE House

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Status published Low CVE-2023-37904

Discourse Race Condition in Accept Invite

2.6 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, more users than permitted could be created from invite links. The issue is patched in version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. As a workaround, use restrict to email address invites.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

discourse

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Affected Software

discourse

Vulnerable Versions:

>= 3.1.0.beta1, < 3.1.0.beta7, < 3.0.6

Timeline

Official Publish: July 28th, 2023

Last Modified: October 10th, 2024

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow

T1565 Data Manipulation

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application