CVE-2024-21658
Medium
Description
discourse-calendar is a discourse plugin which adds the ability to create a dynamic calendar in the first post of a topic. The limit on region value length is too generous. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive bandwidth and disk space. This issue has been patched in main the main branch. There are no workarounds for this vulnerability. Please upgrade as soon as possible.
SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
Product
Discourse Calendar
PublishedAug 30, 2024
First seenAug 30, 2024
Weakness typeCWE-400Uncontrolled resource consumption
How to fix
Update
- discourse discourse_calendar2024-08-28 or later
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| discourse discourse_calendar | v < 2024-08-28 | 2024-08-28 |
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