Vulnerability · Published Mar 15, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2024-24748Disclosure of the existence of secret subcategories in Discourse

Medium 5.3

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 40% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 60.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that a secret subcategory exists under a public category which has no public subcategories. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
discourse	discourse	stable <= 3.2.0beta <= 3.3.0.beta1tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta1

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

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-3qh8-xw23-cq4x x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/819361ba28f86a1347059af300bb5cca690f9193 x_refsource_MISC