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CVE-2024-38360

Published: Jul 15, 2024

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.9

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

discourse

discourse

affected
stable <= 3.2.2
affected
beta <= 3.3.0.beta2
affected
tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta2

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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