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Status published
Medium
CVE-2024-24748
Disclosure of the existence of secret subcategories in Discourse
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
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Vulnerable Versions:
stable <= 3.2.0, beta <= 3.3.0.beta1, tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta1
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 15th, 2024
Last Modified:
August 27th, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N