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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-10-05 23:41

Modified

2025-10-06 00:06

Summary

Discourse: Cross-Site Data Exposure via Backup Restore Metacommand Injection in Multisite Deployments

Details

Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform. In versions 3.5.0 and below, malicious meta-commands could be embedded in a backup dump and executed during restore. In multisite setups, this allowed an admin of one site to access data or credentials from other sites. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.1.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-59337"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform. In versions 3.5.0 and below, malicious meta-commands could be embedded in a backup dump and executed during restore. In multisite setups, this allowed an admin of one site to access data or credentials from other sites. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.1.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2025-59337",
  "modified": "2025-10-06T00:06:00.502Z",
  "published": "2025-10-05T23:41:00.220Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/43536b60d012cc8084e7e701d6afab9ba01e28a5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-7xjr-4f4g-9887"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59337"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Discourse: Cross-Site Data Exposure via Backup Restore Metacommand Injection in Multisite Deployments"
}

CVE-2025-59337 (GCVE-0-2025-59337)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 20:41 – Updated: 2025-10-02 15:56

Title

Discourse: Cross-Site Data Exposure via Backup Restore Metacommand Injection in Multisite Deployments

Summary

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

CWE

CWE-77 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/435…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	discourse	discourse	Affected: < 3.5.1

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                  }
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  },
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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-2025-59337 (GCVE-0-2025-59337)

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