Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 30, 2024· Updated Aug 30, 2024
Insufficient control of region value length in discourse-calendar
CVE-2024-21658
Description
discourse-calendar is a discourse plugin which adds the ability to create a dynamic calendar in the first post of a topic. The limit on region value length is too generous. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive bandwidth and disk space. This issue has been patched in main the main branch. There are no workarounds for this vulnerability. Please upgrade as soon as possible.
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Affected products
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: < 66259cd21dc6a1b2139d9833f3f847d8013e6759
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- github.com/discourse/discourse-calendar/security/advisories/GHSA-65f2-9ghp-x8h8mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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