Medium severity · published Feb 4, 2025
CVE-2024-53851
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions the endpoint for generating inline oneboxes for URLs wasn't enforcing limits on the number of URLs that it accepted, allowing a malicious user to inflict denial of service on some parts of the app. This vulnerability is only exploitable by authenticated users. This issue has been patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should turn off the `enable inline onebox on all domains` site setting and remove all entries from the `allowed inline onebox domains` 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)0.5% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
Discourse · Discourse
before 3.3.3; before 3.4.0; 3.4.0; 3.4.0; 3.4.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53851
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53851
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/416ec83ae57924d721e6e374f4cda78bd77a4599
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-49rv-574x-wgpc
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