CVE-2024-43789 — Denial of service by the absence of restrictions on replies to posts in Discourse

CVE-2024-43789

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

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
discourse / discourse	affected stable: < 3.3.1; affected beta: < 3.4.0.beta1

CWE

CWE-400

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-62cq-cpmc-hvqq

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.