CVE-2024-21658 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the discourse-calendar plugin for Discourse, allowing a malicious actor to exploit an overly generous region value length limit. This can lead to excessive bandwidth and disk space consumption on a Discourse instance. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and requires low privileges, resulting in a low impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2024-08-28CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse_calendar:*:*:*:*:*:discourse:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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