{"id":"BIT-discourse-2024-43789","summary":"Denial of service by the absence of restrictions on replies to posts in Discourse","details":"Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A user can create a post with many replies, and then attempt to fetch them all at once. This can potentially reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. All users area are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.","aliases":["CVE-2024-43789","GHSA-62cq-cpmc-hvqq"],"modified":"2026-09-10T16:00:58.381288693Z","published":"2024-10-09T16:26:38.041Z","database_specific":{"severity":"High","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-62cq-cpmc-hvqq"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43789"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"discourse","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/discourse"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.3.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/discourse/BIT-discourse-2024-43789.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}