Medium severity · published Jul 15, 2024
CVE-2024-38360
Denial of service via Watched Words in Discourse
4.9
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
discourse · discourse
stable <= 3.2.2; beta <= 3.3.0.beta2; tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38360
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38360
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p
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