CVE-2024-21655
MEDIUM4.3EPSS 0.09%Insufficient control of custom field value sizes
Published: 3/6/2024Modified: 10/15/2025
Description
Discourse is a platform for community discussion. For fields that are client editable, limits on sizes are not imposed. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive disk space and also often excessive bandwidth. The issue is patched 3.1.4 and 3.2.0.beta4.
Affected packages (1)
- Bitnami/discoursefrom 0, < 3.1.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |