cve-2024-43789
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-07 20:24
Modified
2024-10-08 18:11
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.
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