CVE-2023-31142

Discourse's general category permissions could be set back to default

State: Published
Severity: 2.0 Low
Published: Jun 13, 2023
Updated: Jan 2, 2025
Reserved: Apr 24, 2023

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.4 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta5 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, if a site has modified their general category permissions, they could be set back to the default. This issue is patched in version 3.0.4 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta5 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. A workaround, only if you are modifying the general category permissions, is to use a new category for the same purpose.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	2.0 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	< 3.0.4Affected >= 3.1.0.beta1, < 3.1.0.beta5Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-286w-97m2-78x2

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