Discourse Chat Even When Disabled Still Accessible (CVE-2024-53994)
CVE-2024-53994 Published on February 4, 2025
Potential bypass of chat permissions in Discourse
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-53994 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. 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
Improper Preservation of Permissions
The software does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-53994
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Affected Versions
discourse:- Version stable: <= 3.3.2 is affected.
- Version beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3 is affected.
- Version tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta3 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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