FKIE_CVE-2024-38360

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-15 20:15 - Updated: 2025-08-26 19:13
Severity ?
4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2pVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2pVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse *
discourse discourse *
discourse discourse 3.3.0
discourse discourse 3.3.0
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