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CVE-2024-38360

MEDIUM
Published 2024-07-15T19:43:04.811Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
4.9
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.002
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.2% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.408
Higher than 40.8% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

discourse

discourse

Affected Versions:

stable <= 3.2.2 beta <= 3.3.0.beta2 tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta2

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990
Published: 2024-07-15T19:43:04.811Z
Last Modified: 2024-08-02T04:04:25.127Z
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