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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-07 20:24 – Updated: 2024-10-08 18:11
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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
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse Affected: stable: < 3.3.1
Affected: beta: < 3.4.0.beta1
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