{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including discourse. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68934 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade discourse to a fixed version for your release line: 3.5.4, 2025.11.2 or 2026.1.0.","what":"CVE-2025-68934 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Discourse Discourse, published on 28 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-68934 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-68934 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Discourse Discourse, published on 28 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68934 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- discourse (Bitnami): affected all versions; fixed in 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2026.1.0\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68934/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68934/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-68934","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68934/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-68934","record":{"aliases":["BIT-discourse-2025-68934","GHSA-vwjh-vrx9-9849"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Discourse forum platform","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated users can cause denial of service by submitting crafted payloads to the drafts endpoint, exhausting shared worker resources.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"discourse","vendor":"discourse"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-770","name":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling"}],"description":"Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, authenticated users can submit crafted payloads to /drafts.json that cause O(n^2) processing in Base62.decode, tying up workers for 35-60 seconds per request. This affects all users as the shared worker pool becomes exhausted. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. Lowering the max_draft_length site setting reduces attack surface but does not fully mitigate the issue, as payloads under the limit can still trigger the slow code path.","ecosystems":["Bitnami"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Discourse Has Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability in Drafts Creation Endpoint","id":"CVE-2025-68934","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","product":"discourse:discourse","products":["discourse:discourse"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Document Server","id":"CVE-2025-68935"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["3.5.4","2025.11.2","2026.1.0"],"introduced":["0","2025.11.0","2025.12.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"discourse","purl":"pkg:bitnami/discourse","source":"BIT-discourse-2025-68934"}],"prev":{"headline":"Discourse non-admin moderators can exfiltrate private content via post ownership transfer","id":"CVE-2025-68933"},"products":["discourse"],"published":"2026-01-28","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"RCE via malicious SNS subscription payload","id":"CVE-2021-41163","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-10-20"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Discourse vulnerable to RCE via admins uploading maliciously zipped file","id":"CVE-2022-36066","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.9,"headline":"Discourse user account takeover via email and invite link","id":"CVE-2022-39356","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-02"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Discourse vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in local oneboxes","id":"CVE-2023-22468","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-01-26"},{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"Discourse leaks private topic title and post excerpt via user action API endpoint","id":"CVE-2026-27934","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-19"},{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"Discourse vulnerable to DoS via large URL payload in PM to a bot","id":"CVE-2025-48053","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-06-09"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Discourse vulnerable to unlimited mentioned users in message serializer","id":"CVE-2023-48297","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-01-12"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"Bitnami","prefix":"BIT"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-01-28","vendors":["discourse"]},"summary":"Authenticated users can cause denial of service by submitting crafted payloads to the drafts endpoint, exhausting shared worker resources.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68934/"}