Medium severity · published Mar 15, 2024
CVE-2024-24748
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion
5.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
Discourse · Discourse
through 3.2.0; through 3.2.0; 3.2.0; 3.2.0; 3.2.0; 3.2.0; +1 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24748
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24748
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/819361ba28f86a1347059af300bb5cca690f9193
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-3qh8-xw23-cq4x
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