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Medium severity4.9NVD Advisory· Published Jul 15, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-38360

CVE-2024-38360

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions by creating replacement words with an almost unlimited number of characters, a moderator can reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This issue has been addressed in stable version 3.2.3 and in current betas. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually remove the long watched words either via SQL or Rails console.

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Affected products

7
  • Discourse (software)/Discourse6 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:beta:*:*:*+ 5 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:beta:*:*:*range: <3.3.0
    • cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*range: <3.3.2
    • cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta1:*:*:beta:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta2:*:*:beta:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: <3.2.3
    • (no CPE)range: stable <= 3.2.2
  • osv-coords
    pkg:bitnami/discourse
    Range: < 3.2.3

Patches

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