CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-38360

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2024-07-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-07-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions by creating replacement words with an almost unlimited number of characters, a moderator can reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This issue has been addressed in stable version 3.2.3 and in current betas. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually remove the long watched words either via SQL or Rails console.

Affected configurations

• discourse discourse (< 3.3.0) • discourse discourse (< 3.3.2) • discourse discourse 3.3.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References