CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
31.7%
Discourse is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability
via defer queue.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:discourse:discourse";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.150797");
script_version("2023-10-12T05:05:32+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-12 05:05:32 +0000 (Thu, 12 Oct 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-07-31 04:14:01 +0000 (Mon, 31 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-08-03 17:37:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Aug 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-38498");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Discourse < 3.0.7 DoS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_discourse_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("discourse/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Discourse is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability
via defer queue.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"A malicious user can prevent the defer queue from proceeding
promptly on sites hosted in the same multisite installation.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Discourse prior to version 3.0.7.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.0.7 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-wv29-rm3f-4g2j");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "3.0.7")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "3.0.7", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);