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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-02-20 10:31

Modified

2025-08-27 09:06

Summary

Users can see other user's tagged PMs in Discourse

Details

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. PM titles and metadata can be read by other users when the "PM tags allowed for groups" option is enabled, the other user is a member of a group added to this option, and the PM has been tagged. This issue has been patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should remove all groups from the the "PM tags allowed for groups" option.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.4.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-56197"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:beta:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. PM titles and metadata can be read by other users when the \"PM tags allowed for groups\" option is enabled, the other user is a member of a group added to this option, and the PM has been tagged. This issue has been patched in the latest `stable`, `beta` and `tests-passed` versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should remove all groups from the the \"PM tags allowed for groups\" option.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2024-56197",
  "modified": "2025-08-27T09:06:48.117Z",
  "published": "2025-02-20T10:31:38.504Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-xmgr-g9cp-v239"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56197"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Users can see other user\u0027s tagged PMs in Discourse"
}

CVE-2024-56197 (GCVE-0-2024-56197)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-04 20:59 – Updated: 2025-02-05 15:06

Title

Users can see other user's tagged PMs in Discourse

Summary

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. PM titles and metadata can be read by other users when the "PM tags allowed for groups" option is enabled, the other user is a member of a group added to this option, and the PM has been tagged. This issue has been patched in the latest `stable`, `beta` and `tests-passed` versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should remove all groups from the the "PM tags allowed for groups" option.

Severity ?

2.2 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/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

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	discourse	discourse	Affected: stable: <= 3.3.3 Affected: beta: <= 3.4.0.beta4 Affected: tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta4

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                    "Exploitation": "none"
                  },
                  {
                    "Automatable": "no"
                  },
                  {
                    "Technical Impact": "partial"
                  }
                ],
                "role": "CISA Coordinator",
                "timestamp": "2025-02-05T15:05:52.844134Z",
                "version": "2.0.3"
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          "shortName": "CISA-ADP"
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        "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment"
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          "versions": [
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            },
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            },
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            }
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        }
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "cvssV3_1": {
            "attackComplexity": "HIGH",
            "attackVector": "NETWORK",
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            "baseSeverity": "LOW",
            "confidentialityImpact": "LOW",
            "integrityImpact": "NONE",
            "privilegesRequired": "HIGH",
            "scope": "UNCHANGED",
            "userInteraction": "NONE",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
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      },
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          ],
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        }
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        "discovery": "UNKNOWN"
      },
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    }
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    "datePublished": "2025-02-04T20:59:13.464Z",
    "dateReserved": "2024-12-18T18:29:25.895Z",
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  },
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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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-2024-56197 (GCVE-0-2024-56197)

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