CWE
400 770
EPSS
0.045%
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2024-21655: Insufficient control of custom field value sizes

First published: Fri Jan 12 2024(Updated: )

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.

Credit: security-advisories@github.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Discourse Discourse<3.1.4
Discourse Discourse=3.2.0-beta1
Discourse Discourse=3.2.0-beta2
Discourse Discourse=3.2.0-beta3

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