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CVE-2024-21655

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CVE-2024-21655

Published: Jan 12, 2024

Modified: Jun 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.3

MEDIUM

Description

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. For fields that are client editable, limits on sizes are not imposed. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive disk space and also often excessive bandwidth. The issue is patched 3.1.4 and 3.2.0.beta4.

VendorProductVersions

discourse

discourse

affected
< 3.1.4
affected
>= 3.2.0beta1, < 3.2.0.beta4

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

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