CVE-2024-38360

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Publication date:

15/07/2024

Last modified:

26/08/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

4.90

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::beta:::*		3.3.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::stable:::*		3.3.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta1:::beta:::*
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta2:::beta:::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-38360

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools