What is CVE-2024-27085?

CVE-2024-27085 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-03-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-27085?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-27085 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Discourse

CVE-2024-27085

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions users that are allowed to invite others can inject arbitrarily large data in parameters used in the invite route. The problem has been patched in the lates…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.006 (42.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Discourse — versions beta <= 3.3.0.beta1, stable <= 3.2.0, 3.3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

NaInSec/CVE-LIST

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-27085?: CVE-2024-27085 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-03-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-27085?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-27085 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.