CVE-2024-43789: Denial of service by the absence of restrictions on replies to posts in Discourse
First published: Mon Oct 07 2024(Updated: )
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.
Credit: security-advisories@github.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Discourse Discourse | <3.3.1 | |
| Discourse Discourse | <=3.4.0 | |
| Discourse Discourse | =3.4.0 |
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