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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.9 Medium

CVE-2024-38360

Denial of service via Watched Words in Discourse

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.

Affected products

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

discourse discourse

  • stable <= 3.2.2affected
  • beta <= 3.3.0.beta2affected
  • tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta2affected

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