CVE-2024-27085: Discourse Invite Parameter Injection
CVE-2024-27085 Published on March 15, 2024
Denial of service through invites in Discourse
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 latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable invites or restrict access to them using the `invite allowed groups` site setting.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-27085 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2024-27085 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-27085
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Affected Versions
discourse:- Version stable <= 3.2.0 is affected.
- Version beta <= 3.3.0.beta1 is affected.
- Version tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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