CVE-2024-52589 LOW

CVE-2024-52589: Moderators can view Screened emails even when the “moderators view emails” option is disabled in Discourse

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-200 · Info exposure
Published December 19, 2024
Last update December 20, 2024

CVSS base score

2.2/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Moderators can see the Screened emails list in the admin dashboard, and through that can learn the email of a user. This problem is patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users unable to upgrade should remove moderator role from untrusted users.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 19, 2024 CVE published
December 20, 2024 Record updated