Discourse subcategory enumeration via hidden category leak
CVE-2024-24748 Published on March 15, 2024
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-24748 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
What is an Information Disclosure Vulnerability?
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
CVE-2024-24748 has been classified to as an Information Disclosure vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-24748
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Affected Versions
discourse:- Version stable <= 3.2.0 is affected.
- Version beta <= 3.3.0.beta1 is affected.
- Version tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta1 is affected.
- Version stable, <= 3.2.0 is affected.
- Version beta, <= 3.3.0.beta1 is affected.
- Version tests-passed, <= 3.3.0.beta1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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