CVE-2023-44388

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    CVE-2023-44388

    Published: 16 Oct 2023Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: Malicious requests can fill up the log files resulting in a deinal of service in Discourse

    Details: Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A malicious request can cause production log files to quickly fill up and thus result in the server running out of disk space. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. It is possible to temporarily work around this problem by reducing the `client_max_body_size nginx directive`. `client_max_body_size` will limit the size of uploads that can be uploaded directly to the server.

    References: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_max_body_size, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/44xxx/CVE-2023-44388.json, https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-89h3-g746-xmwq, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44388

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 61b51f9eb6e539825496ec00d58ce3ff53fdb578
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.2.0-beta1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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