Denial of service by the absence of restrictions on replies… (CVE-2024-43789)

Summary

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

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami discourse

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.3.1"}]}]

References

advisory github.com
web nvd.nist.gov