CVE 4.3 MEDIUM

Discourse has DoS vulnerability in username change endpoint_CVE-2025-68659

4.3 / 10
MEDIUM
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

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