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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.3 Medium

CVE-2024-21655

Insufficient control of custom field value sizes

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

discourse discourse

  • < 3.1.4affected
  • >= 3.2.0beta1, < 3.2.0.beta4affected

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