{"id":"CVE-2023-22739","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-22739","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:52:46.307Z","title":"As there is no limit on data contained in a draft, a malicious user can create an arbitrarily large draft, forcing the instance to a crawl.","description":"Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.0.1 (stable), 3.1.0.beta2 (beta), and 3.1.0.beta2 (tests-passed) are subject to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. As there is no limit on data contained in a draft, a malicious user can create an arbitrarily large draft, forcing the instance to a crawl. This issue is patched in versions 3.0.1 (stable), 3.1.0.beta2 (beta), and 3.1.0.beta2 (tests-passed). There are no workarounds.","published":"2023-01-26T21:18:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:36:04.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-770"],"affected":["discourse/discourse"],"epss":{"score":0.00874,"percentile":0.58671,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.87%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-rqgr-g6v7-jcfc","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-rqgr-g6v7-jcfc","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22739","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}