CVE-2023-45131

Unauthenticated access to new private chat messages in Discourse

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Oct 16, 2023
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Oct 4, 2023

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. New chat messages can be read by making an unauthenticated POST request to MessageBus. This issue is patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	stable < 3.1.2Affected beta < 3.2.0.beta2Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-84gf-hhrc-9pw6

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