CVE-2024-38360 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-38360: Denial of service via Watched Words in Discourse

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-400
Published July 15, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024
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CVSS base score

4.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 15, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated