CVE-2024-38360
Denial of service via Watched Words in Discourse
4.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.35%
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.
How to fix CVE-2024-38360
To remediate CVE-2024-38360, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 3.2.3 or later
Is CVE-2024-38360 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 3.2.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |