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CVE-2023-28107

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-28107 affects Discourse, an open-source discussion platform, allowing an authenticated administrator to trigger multiple database backups, leading to a denial-of-service condition by exhausting database connections. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.9) has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, with a high impact on availability, potentially affecting an entire multisite cluster. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*
< 3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:beta:*:*:*
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.1.0:beta1:*:*:beta:*:*:*
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.1.0:beta2:*:*:beta:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0065 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 3,565 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / discourse/discourse/commit/0bd64788d2b4680c04fbef76314a24884d65fed9
Patch
github.com / discourse/discourse/commit/78a3efa7104eed6dd3ed7a06a71e2705337d9e61
Patch
github.com / discourse/discourse/pull/20700
Patch
github.com / discourse/discourse/pull/20701
Patch
github.com / discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-cp7c-fm4c-6xxx
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