VDB-271538 · CVE-2024-38360 · GCVE-0-2024-38360

Discourse up to 3.3.0.beta2/3.2.2 resource consumption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Discourse up to 3.3.0.beta2/3.2.2. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-38360. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Discourse up to 3.3.0.beta2/3.2.2. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-38360 since 06/14/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 3.2.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

Type

Chat Software

Name

Discourse

Version

License

open-source

Website

Product: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

VulDB Base Score: 4.9
VulDB Temp Score: 4.7
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 4.9
CNA Vector (GitHub_M): 🔍

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
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ATT&CK: 🔍

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Upgrade: Discourse 3.2.3

Timelineinfo

06/14/2024 🔍
07/15/2024 +31 days 🔍
07/15/2024 +0 days 🔍
08/27/2025 +408 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-38360 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-38360
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-271538

Entryinfo

Created: 07/15/2024 22:05
Updated: 08/27/2025 04:01
Changes: 07/15/2024 22:05 (62), 08/27/2025 04:01 (3)
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