CVE-2024-21655 (GCVE-0-2024-21655)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-12 20:46 – Updated: 2025-06-03 14:03
VLAI
Title
Insufficient control of custom field value sizes
Summary
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.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-08 19:10 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse Affected: < 3.1.4
Affected: >= 3.2.0beta1, < 3.2.0.beta4
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