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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:02

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Any authenticated Discourse user can create an unlisted topic

Details

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. In version 2.8.13 and prior on the stable branch and version 2.9.0.beta14 and prior on the beta and tests-passed branches, any authenticated user can create an unlisted topic. These topics, which are not readily available to other users, can take up unnecessary site resources. A patch for this issue is available in the main branch of Discourse. There are no known workarounds available.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.8.14"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-46159"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta10:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta11:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta12:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta13:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta14:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta6:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta7:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta8:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. In version 2.8.13 and prior on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta14 and prior on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, any authenticated user can create an unlisted topic. These topics, which are not readily available to other users, can take up unnecessary site resources. A patch for this issue is available in the `main` branch of Discourse. There are no known workarounds available.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2022-46159",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:02:38.003Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0ce38bd7bce862db251b882613ab7053ca777382"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-qf99-xpx6-hgxp"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46159"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Any authenticated Discourse user can create an unlisted topic"
}

CVE-2022-46159 (GCVE-0-2022-46159)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-02 14:15 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:33

Title

Any authenticated Discourse user can create an unlisted topic

Summary

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. In version 2.8.13 and prior on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta14 and prior on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, any authenticated user can create an unlisted topic. These topics, which are not readily available to other users, can take up unnecessary site resources. A patch for this issue is available in the `main` branch of Discourse. There are no known workarounds available.

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:53 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0ce…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
discourse	discourse	Affected: <= 2.8.13 Affected: >= 2.9.0.beta0, <= 2.9.0.beta14

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