CVE-2024-53994

Potential bypass of chat permissions in Discourse

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Feb 4, 2025
Updated: Feb 4, 2025
Reserved: Nov 25, 2024

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions users who disable chat in preferences could still be reachable in some cases. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable the chat plugin within site settings.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	stable: <= 3.3.2Affected beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3Affected tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta3Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-mrpw-gwj7-98r6

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