CVE-2024-56197

Users can see other user's tagged PMs in Discourse

State: Published
Severity: 2.2 Low
Published: Feb 4, 2025
Updated: Feb 5, 2025
Reserved: Dec 18, 2024

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. PM titles and metadata can be read by other users when the "PM tags allowed for groups" option is enabled, the other user is a member of a group added to this option, and the PM has been tagged. This issue has been patched in the latest `stable`, `beta` and `tests-passed` versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should remove all groups from the the "PM tags allowed for groups" option.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	2.2 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	stable: <= 3.3.3Affected beta: <= 3.4.0.beta4Affected tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta4Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-xmgr-g9cp-v239

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