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CVE-2024-38360

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Published: Jul 15, 2024Modified: Aug 26, 2025

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4.9
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.2 / Impact: 3.6
Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

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 (4)

Products: Discourse: Discourse
Discourse
1 product
Discourse
Configuration A
4 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Discourse
Discourse
Before 3.3.0
Discourse
Before 3.3.2
Discourse
Version 3.3.0 beta1
Discourse
Version 3.3.0 beta2

Related CWEs

CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (4)

Source: security-advisories@github.com
Patch
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory

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