Vulnerability · Published Jul 28, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-38685Discourse's restricted tag information visible to unauthenticated users

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity information exposure in discourse from discourse. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, information about restricted-visibility topic tags could be obtained by unauthorized users. The issue is patched in version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
discourse	discourse	>= 3.1.0.beta1, < 3.1.0.beta7< 3.0.6

Weakness: CWE-200 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-wx6x-q4gp-mgv5 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/073661142369a0a66c25775cc3870582a679ef8b x_refsource_MISC