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CVE-2022-39232 json

Discourse vulnerable to incomplete quote causing a topic to crash in the browser

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also BIT-discourse-2022-39232 , EUVD-2022-41757 , GHSA-cv64-v73f-7wq5

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Starting with version 2.9.0.beta5 and prior to version 2.9.0.beta10, an incomplete quote can generate a JavaScript error which will crash the current page in the browser in some cases. Version 2.9.0.beta10 added a fix and tests to ensure incomplete quotes won't break the app. As a workaround, the quote can be fixed via the rails console.

Patch / fix

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami discourse
>=2.9.0-beta5, <=2.9.0-beta5
>=2.9.0-beta6, <=2.9.0-beta6
>=2.9.0-beta7, <=2.9.0-beta7
>=2.9.0-beta8, <=2.9.0-beta8
>=2.9.0-beta9, <=2.9.0-beta9
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • discourse discourse

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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