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CVE-2025-68659 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.3 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:4.3 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-rmp6-c9rq-6q7p	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-770	Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discourse discourse	< 3.5.4 >= 2025.11.0, < 2025.11.2 2025.12.0 2026.1.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::stable:::* cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2025.12.0::::stable::: cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2026.1.0::::stable::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Jan 30, 2026	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Jan 28, 2026	New CVE Received	[email protected]