{"cve":"CVE-2024-38360","nvd":{"published":"2024-07-15T20:15:03.430","modified":"2026-06-17T07:39:59.530","status":"Analyzed","description":"Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions by creating replacement words with an almost unlimited number of characters, a moderator can reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This issue has been addressed in stable version 3.2.3 and in current betas. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually remove the long watched words either via SQL or Rails console.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":4.9},"cwes":["CWE-400"],"references":["https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990","https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p","https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7b53e610c17e38be982dffefa4e5b5a709a3b990","https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-68pm-hm8x-pq2p"],"products":["discourse:discourse"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:52:42.518321223+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-38360","score":0.00469,"percentile":0.40609,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}