CVE-2024-13274 — open_social
MEDIUMCVE-2024-13274 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-799 vulnerability in goalgorilla/open_social. A fix is available for goalgorilla/open_social — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Open Social - Moderately critical - Denial of Service - SA-CONTRIB-2024-038
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-13274.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
goalgorilla/open_social🐘goalgorilla/open_social🐘goalgorilla/open_socialReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
The distribution didn't validate the flood control limits on the password reset form correctly resulting in a potential attacker flooding the password reset which could result in a Denial of Service. Fortunately the message does not disclose any information to the attacker.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | goalgorilla/open_social | all versions | 12.3.8composer require goalgorilla/open_social:^12.3.8 |
| 🐘Packagist | goalgorilla/open_social | ≥ 12.4.0&&< 12.4.5 | 12.4.5composer require goalgorilla/open_social:^12.4.5 |
| 🐘Packagist | goalgorilla/open_social | ≥ 13.0.0-alpha1&&< 13.0.0-alpha11 | 13.0.0-alpha11composer require goalgorilla/open_social:^13.0.0-alpha11 |
Affected Products
open socialgetopensocialDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for goalgorilla/open_social, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update goalgorilla/open_social to 12.3.8 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-13274 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Escape or sanitise the affected output on the server side rather than relying on client-side filtering, and add a Content-Security-Policy that blocks inline script execution so injected markup cannot run even if it reaches the page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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