CVE-2024-38360

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions by creating replacement words with an almost unlimited number of characters, a moderator can reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This issue has been addressed in stable version 3.2.3 and in current betas. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually remove the long watched words either via SQL or Rails console.

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3