Information disclosure in Discourse

CVE-2022-24850

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A category's group permissions settings can be viewed by anyone that has access to the category. As a result, a normal user is able to see whether a group has read/write permissions in the category even though the information should only be available to the users that can manage a category. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. There are no workarounds for this problem.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (49.6th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 50th percentile — 49.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2022-24850: held from 0.007 to 0.007.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Discourse — versions 2.9.0, < 2.9.0.beta4, < 2.8.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-24850?
CVE-2022-24850 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-04-14.
How severe is CVE-2022-24850?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.