CVE-2024-21655 | BDVDB-2026-221983 Detail

discoursediscourse

Description#

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. For fields that are client editable, limits on sizes are not imposed. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive disk space and also often excessive bandwidth. The issue is patched 3.1.4 and 3.2.0.beta4.

Impact#

Per CVSS v3.1: confidentiality impact none, integrity impact none, availability impact low. Attack vector: network.

Weaknesses#

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References#

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-m5fc-94mm-38fx

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12024-01-12Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22025-06-03Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.

Published

Published: 2024-01-12
Last modified: 2025-06-03

Vendor information

Vendor: discourse
Product: discourse

All discourse vulnerabilities

Score

4.3 Medium

EPSS

less than 1%, Very Low

Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. EPSS percentile: 47.2.

KEV

Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Impact

Denial of Service

Action

No specific action is recorded in the source data. Check the references for vendor guidance.

Affected Systems

Vulnerable
< 3.1.4
Fixed
Not stated
Vulnerable
>= 3.2.0beta1, < 3.2.0.beta4
Fixed
Not stated

Scoring System

CVSS v4.0

Not available

CVSS v3.1

4.3 Medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Metric breakdown
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity	None
Availability	Low

CVSS v3.0

Not available

CVSS v2

Not available

Source: CVE List v5 (record); CISA KEV (kev, action); FIRST EPSS (epss).