CVE-2024-37299

Discourse vulnerable to DoS via Tag Group

State: Published
Severity: 4.9 Medium
Published: Jul 30, 2024
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Jun 5, 2024

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to 3.2.5 and 3.3.0.beta5, crafting requests to submit very long tag group names can reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.5 and 3.3.0.beta5.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	< 3.2.5Affected >= 3.3.0.beta1, < 3.3.0.beta5Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4j6h-9pjp-5476
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/188cb58daa833839c54c266ce22db150a3f3a210
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/76f06f6b1491db6bd09a4017d2c5591431b3b16e

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