CVE-2024-43789 (GCVE-0-2024-43789)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-07 20:24 – Updated: 2024-10-08 18:11
VLAI
Title
Denial of service by the absence of restrictions on replies to posts in Discourse
Summary
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A user can create a post with many replies, and then attempt to fetch them all at once. This can potentially reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. All users area are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse Affected: stable: < 3.3.1
Affected: beta: < 3.4.0.beta1
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discourse discourse Affected: stable , < 3.3.1 (custom)
Affected: beta , < 3.4.0.beta1 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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