Medium severity · published Mar 15, 2024
CVE-2024-27085
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion
6.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
Discourse · Discourse
before 3.2.0; before 3.3.0; 3.3.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27085
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27085
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/62ea382247c1f87361d186392c45ca74c83be295
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-cvp5-h7p8-mjj6
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