CVE-2024-37299

July 30, 2024, 3:15 p.m.

4.9
Medium

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to 3.2.5 and 3.3.0.beta5, crafting requests to submit very long tag group names can reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.5 and 3.3.0.beta5.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
Discourse
  • before 3.2.5
  • before 3.3.0.beta5

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

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.

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/188cb58daa833839c54c266ce22db150a3f3a210
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/76f06f6b1491db6bd09a4017d2c5591431b3b16e
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4j6h-9pjp-5476

Tags

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-400
2024-07-30
CVE-2024-37299

CVSS Score

4.9 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: HIGH
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Timeline

Published: July 30, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Last Modified: July 30, 2024, 3:15 p.m.

Status : Received

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

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

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