{"id":"BIT-discourse-2024-21655","summary":"Insufficient control of custom field value sizes","details":"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.","aliases":["CVE-2024-21655","GHSA-m5fc-94mm-38fx"],"modified":"2026-09-08T08:46:25.672314905Z","published":"2024-03-06T10:51:21.402Z","database_specific":{"severity":"Medium","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.2.0:beta1:*:*:beta:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.2.0:beta2:*:*:beta:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.2.0:beta3:*:*:beta:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:beta:*:*:*"]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-m5fc-94mm-38fx"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21655"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"discourse","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/discourse"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.1.4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/discourse/BIT-discourse-2024-21655.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"}]}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}