CVE-2024-43789CWE-400

Denial of service by the absence of restrictions on replies to posts in Discourse

High · published October 7, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00461 · 39.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2024-10-07T20:24Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 OCT 20:24Z
    Denial of service by the absence of restrictions on replies to posts in Discourse
    cvelistv5