Vulnerability · Published Mar 15, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2024-27085Denial of service through invites in Discourse

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in discourse from discourse. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 52.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions users that are allowed to invite others can inject arbitrarily large data in parameters used in the invite route. The problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable invites or restrict access to them using the `invite allowed groups` site setting.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
discourse	discourse	stable <= 3.2.0beta <= 3.3.0.beta1tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta1

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-cvp5-h7p8-mjj6 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/62ea382247c1f87361d186392c45ca74c83be295 x_refsource_MISC