CVE-2024-49765 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-49765

Bypass of Discourse Connect using other login paths if enabled in Discourse

Vulnerability Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Sites that are using discourse connect but still have local logins enabled could allow attackers to bypass discourse connect to create accounts and login. This problem is patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users unable to upgrade who are using discourse connect may disable all other login methods as a workaround.

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

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

discourse
Vulnerable Versions:
stable: <= 3.3.2, beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3, tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta3

Timeline

Official Publish: December 19th, 2024
Last Modified: December 20th, 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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-359

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.