Resource exhaustion in Discourse

CVE-2024-37299

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to 3.2.5 and 3.3.0.beta5, crafting requests to submit very long tag group names can reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.5 and 3.3.0.beta5.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (46.6th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 47th percentile — 46.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2024-37299: held from 0.006 to 0.006.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Discourse — versions 3.3.0, >= 3.3.0.beta1, < 3.3.0.beta5, < 3.2.5

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-37299?
CVE-2024-37299 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-07-30.
How severe is CVE-2024-37299?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.