SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2024-38360

CVE-2024-38360 — Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion

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

CVSS
4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS
35.00% (top 43.00%)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
2024-07-15T19:43:04.811Z
Last modified
2024-08-02T04:04:25.127Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
discoursediscoursestable <= 3.2.2, beta <= 3.3.0.beta2, tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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