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Medium · 4.9 CVE-2024-38360 EUVD-2024-37278

Denial of service via Watched Words in Discourse

Published Jul 15, 2024 · Updated Aug 2, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse stable <= 3.2.2, beta <= 3.3.0.beta2, tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta2 —

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