CVE-2024-38360 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0028.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Discourse	Discourse

Configuration 1 [-]

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	cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta2:::beta:::*

No data.

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Vendors	Products
Discourse	Discourse

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p

History

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::beta:::* cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::stable:::* cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta1:::beta:::* cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta2:::beta:::*

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-07-15T19:43:04.811Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:04:25.127Z

Reserved: 2024-06-14T14:16:16.465Z

Link: CVE-2024-38360

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-07-16T13:22:22.717Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-15T20:15:03.430

Modified: 2025-08-26T19:13:33.780

Link: CVE-2024-38360

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T16:01:24Z

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