CVE-2023-30606

Multisite denial of service through unsanitized dynamic dispatch to SiteSetting in Discourse

MEDIUM
4.9
CVSS Score
Published: April 18, 2023 at 09:36 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:55 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorDiscourse

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Severity
MEDIUM4.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a user logged as an administrator can call arbitrary methods on the `SiteSetting` class, notably `#clear_cache!` and `#notify_changed!`, which when done on a multisite instance, can affect the entire cluster resulting in a denial of service. Users not running in multisite environments are not affected. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 3.0.1v < 3.0.2v < 3.1.0v < 3.1.0.beta33.1.0 beta13.1.0 beta2
Affected range stops below 3.0.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 3.1.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 3.1.0.beta3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-732

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