CVE-2024-21658CWE-400

Insufficient control of region value length in discourse-calendar

Medium · published August 30, 2024

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
28.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00362 · 28.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2024-08-30T17:18Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 AUG 17:18Z
    Insufficient control of region value length in discourse-calendar
    cvelistv5