CVE-2024-38360

Denial of service via Watched Words in Discourse

Severity Score

4.9

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Track

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Discourse es una plataforma de código abierto para el debate comunitario. En las versiones afectadas, al crear palabras de reemplazo con una cantidad casi ilimitada de caracteres, un moderador puede reducir la disponibilidad de una instancia de Discourse. Este problema se solucionó en la versión estable 3.2.3 y en las versiones beta actuales. Se recomienda a los usuarios que actualicen. Los usuarios que no puedan actualizar pueden eliminar manualmente las palabras vistas durante mucho tiempo a través de SQL o la consola Rails.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

GitHubv3.1 4.9

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Track

Exploitation

None

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Partial

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2024-06-14 CVE Reserved
2024-07-15 CVE Published
2024-07-16 EPSS Updated
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990	X_refsource_misc
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p	X_refsource_confirm

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Discourse Search vendor "Discourse"		Discourse Search vendor "Discourse" for product "Discourse"				<= 3.2.2 Search vendor "Discourse" for product "Discourse" and version " <= 3.2.2"		en		Affected