CVE-2024-38360

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.

CVSS v3 4.9 MEDIUM

4.9^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.2 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990	Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p	Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990	Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::beta:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::stable:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta1:::beta:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta2:::beta:::*

History

26 Aug 2025, 19:13

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time		Discourse Discourse discourse
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta1:::beta:::* cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::stable:::* cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta2:::beta:::* cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::beta:::*
References	~~() https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990 -~~	() https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990 - Patch
References	~~() https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p -~~	() https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p - Vendor Advisory

Information

Published : 2024-07-15 20:15

Updated : 2025-08-26 19:13

NVD link : CVE-2024-38360

Mitre link : CVE-2024-38360

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-38360

JSON object : View

Products Affected

discourse

discourse

CWE

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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