What is CVE-2024-21658?

CVE-2024-21658 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse Discourse-calendar, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-08-30.

How severe is CVE-2024-21658?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Discourse Discourse-calendar

CVE-2024-21658

discourse-calendar is a discourse plugin which adds the ability to create a dynamic calendar in the first post of a topic. The limit on region value length is too generous. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.004 (28.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Discourse Discourse-calendar — versions < 66259cd21dc6a1b2139d9833f3f847d8013e6759
Discourse Discourse_calendar

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-21658?: CVE-2024-21658 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse Discourse-calendar, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-08-30.
How severe is CVE-2024-21658?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.