CVE-2024-28242

Disclosure of the existence of secret categories with custom backgrounds in Discourse

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Mar 15, 2024
Updated
Aug 26, 2024
Reserved
Mar 7, 2024

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Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that secret categories exist when they have backgrounds set. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should temporarily remove category backgrounds.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

ProductVersions
discoursediscourse
  • stable <= 3.2.0Affected
  • beta <= 3.3.0.beta1Affected
  • tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta1Affected

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