What is CVE-2024-43789?

CVE-2024-43789 is a high-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-10-07.

How severe is CVE-2024-43789?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Discourse

CVE-2024-43789

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 b…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.004 (35.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Discourse — versions stable: < 3.3.1, beta: < 3.4.0.beta1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-43789?: CVE-2024-43789 is a high-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-10-07.
How severe is CVE-2024-43789?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.