Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in Discourse (CVE-2022-31182)

Summary

Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in Discourse

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request for static assets could cause error responses to be cached by Discourse's default NGINX proxy configuration. A corrected NGINX configuration is included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami discourse

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.7"}]}]

References

advisory github.com
advisory github.com
web nvd.nist.gov