Moderators can reduce availability of Discourse instances by creating long words
CVE-2024-38360

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Discourse
Vendor
CVE Published:
15 July 2024

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

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisorie...
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17...

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

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