BIT-discourse-2024-28242

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    BIT-discourse-2024-28242

    Published: 1 Apr 2024Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026

    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.

    References: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b425fbc2a28341a5627928f963519006712c3d39, https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-c7q7-7f6q-2c23, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28242

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: discourse

    Purl: pkg:bitnami/discourse

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.2.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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