VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2024-21655

This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive disk space and also often excessive bandwidth.

MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 0.57%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.57%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. For fields that are client editable, limits on sizes are not imposed. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive disk space and also often excessive bandwidth. The issue is patched 3.1.4 and 3.2.0.beta4.

CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS: 0.57% probability · 45th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-770
Affected: discourse/discourse
Source: security-advisories@github.com

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-m5fc-94mm-38fxVendor Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-m5fc-94mm-38fxVendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.