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High · 7.5 CVE-2024-43789 EUVD-2024-40449

Denial of service by the absence of restrictions on replies to posts in Discourse

Published Oct 7, 2024 · Updated Oct 8, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A user can create a post with many replies, and then attempt to fetch them all at once. This can potentially reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. All users area are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse stable: < 3.3.1, beta: < 3.4.0.beta1 —

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