CVE-2024-21658

Aug. 30, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Received
CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

Products

discourse-calendar

  • UNKNOWN

Source

security-advisories@github.com

Tags

CVE-2024-21658 details

Published : Aug. 30, 2024, 6:15 p.m.
Last Modified : Aug. 30, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Description

discourse-calendar is a discourse plugin which adds the ability to create a dynamic calendar in the first post of a topic. The limit on region value length is too generous. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive bandwidth and disk space. This issue has been patched in main the main branch. There are no workarounds for this vulnerability. Please upgrade as soon as possible.

CVSS Score

1 2 3 4.3 5 6 7 8 9 10

Weakness

Weakness Name Description
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

4.3

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

1.4

Base Severity

MEDIUM

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