CVE-2024-53994 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-53994: Potential bypass of chat permissions in Discourse

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-281
Published February 4, 2025
Last update February 4, 2025
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CVSS base score

4.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions users who disable chat in preferences could still be reachable in some cases. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable the chat plugin within site settings.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 4, 2025 CVE published
February 4, 2025 Record updated