CVE-2024-38360
Estado: AnalizadaMedia (4.9)—
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions by creating replacement words with an almost unlimited number of characters, a moderator can reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This issue has been addressed in stable version 3.2.3 and in current betas. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually remove the long watched words either via SQL or Rails console.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 4.9
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.47%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 39
- Fecha de la puntuación: 7/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-400
Referencias
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p
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