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CVE-2024-43789

Oct. 19, 2024, 1:13 a.m.

CVSS Score

4.3 / 10

Products Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
discourse
  • discourse
  • *, 3.4.0

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.

Weaknesses

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.

CWE ID: 400

Date

Published: Oct. 7, 2024, 9:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Oct. 19, 2024, 1:13 a.m.

Status : Analyzed

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

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

CPEs

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a discourse discourse / / / / stable / / /
a discourse discourse / / / / beta / / /
a discourse discourse 3.4.0 - / / beta / / /

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
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

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

References

https://github.com/ security-advisories@github.com