CVE-2024-21658 - Design/Logic Flaw

Routine

Remediate Within 6 Months

CVE Information|Basic Analysis|Framework Mapping|Web Framework Mapping|Compliance

CVE Information

Original CVE data

Published: August 30, 2024

Updated: September 3, 2024

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.

CWE:

CVSS v2-

CVSS v3-

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-calendar/security/advisories/GHSA-65f2-9ghp-x8h8

Affected Vendors

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOⁿengine

Design/Logic Flaw

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOⁿengine

CVSS v25

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v34.9

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

MITRE CWE Top 25

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

Compliance Impact

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application

WASC-19 - SQL Injection