CVE-2024-53851

MEDIUM

Discourse - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 39.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (3)
discourse/discourse 3.4.0 beta1 (3 CPE variants)
discourse/discourse < 3.3.3
discourse/discourse < 3.4.0
Published Feb 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026