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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0 have an application level denial of service vulnerabilityin the username change functionality at try.discourse.org. The vulnerability allows attackers to cause noticeable server delays and resource exhaustion by sending large JSON payloads to the username preference endpoint PUT /u//preferences/username, resulting in degraded performance for other users and endpoints. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. No known workarounds are available.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2025-68659
Source
GitHub_M
Published
Jan 28, 2026 at 18:51
Affected Product
Vendor
discourse
Product
discourse
Version
< 3.5.4
Affected Versions
discourse discourse < 3.5.4
discourse discourse >= 2025.11.0-latest, < 2025.11.2
discourse discourse >= 2025.12.0-latest, 2025.12.1
discourse discourse >= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.0
discourse discourse >= 2025.11.0-latest, < 2025.11.2
discourse discourse >= 2025.12.0-latest, 2025.12.1
discourse discourse >= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.0