CVE-2024-45051

Bypass of email address validation via encoded email addresses in Discourse

State: Published
Severity: 8.2 High
Published: Oct 7, 2024
Updated: Oct 8, 2024
Reserved: Aug 21, 2024

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A maliciously crafted email address could allow an attacker to bypass domain-based restrictions and gain access to private sites, categories and/or groups. This issue has been patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. All users area are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	stable: < 3.3.2Affected beta: < 3.4.0.beta2Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-2vjv-pgh4-6rmq

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