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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-04-01 14:04

Modified

2025-08-27 09:06

Summary

Disclosure of the existence of secret categories with custom backgrounds in Discourse

Details

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that secret categories exist when they have backgrounds set. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should temporarily remove category backgrounds.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.2.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-28242"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that secret categories exist when they have backgrounds set. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should temporarily remove category backgrounds.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2024-28242",
  "modified": "2025-08-27T09:06:48.117Z",
  "published": "2024-04-01T14:04:02.275Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b425fbc2a28341a5627928f963519006712c3d39"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-c7q7-7f6q-2c23"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28242"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Disclosure of the existence of secret categories with custom backgrounds in Discourse"
}

CVE-2024-28242 (GCVE-0-2024-28242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-15 19:21 – Updated: 2024-08-26 15:02

Title

Disclosure of the existence of secret categories with custom backgrounds in Discourse

Summary

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b42…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	discourse	discourse	Affected: stable <= 3.2.0 Affected: beta <= 3.3.0.beta1 Affected: tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta1

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            ],
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            "vendor": "discourse",
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                "status": "affected",
                "version": "0",
                "versionType": "custom"
              },
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              },
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                "status": "affected",
                "version": "tests-passed",
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              }
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                  },
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                    "Automatable": "no"
                  },
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                    "Technical Impact": "partial"
                  }
                ],
                "role": "CISA Coordinator",
                "timestamp": "2024-03-18T15:05:16.606591Z",
                "version": "2.0.3"
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          "shortName": "CISA-ADP"
        },
        "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment"
      },
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              "x_transferred"
            ],
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          },
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        }
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      },
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          ],
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}

Sightings

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2024-28242 (GCVE-0-2024-28242)

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