Discourse vulnerable to ReDoS in user agent parsing (CVE-2023-23621)

Summary

Discourse vulnerable to ReDoS in user agent parsing

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 on the beta and tests-passed branches, a malicious user can cause a regular expression denial of service using a carefully crafted user agent. This issue is patched in version 3.0.1 on the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 on the beta and tests-passed branches. There are no known workarounds.

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

Affected packages

Bitnami discourse

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.0.1"}]}]

References

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