CVE-2024-21655
Insufficient control of custom field value sizes
4.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.09%
Description
Discourse is a platform for community discussion. For fields that are client editable, limits on sizes are not imposed. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive disk space and also often excessive bandwidth. The issue is patched 3.1.4 and 3.2.0.beta4.
How to fix CVE-2024-21655
To remediate CVE-2024-21655, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 3.1.4 or later
Is CVE-2024-21655 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 3.1.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |