BIT-discourse-2024-43789

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Import Source
https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/discourse/BIT-discourse-2024-43789.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/BIT-discourse-2024-43789
Aliases
Published
2024-10-09T16:26:38.041Z
Modified
2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z
Summary
Denial of service by the absence of restrictions on replies to posts in Discourse
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "severity": "Medium",
    "cpes": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Bitnami / discourse

Package

Name
discourse
Purl
pkg:bitnami/discourse

Severity

  • 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.3.1