What is CVE-2024-45297?

CVE-2024-45297 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-10-07.

How severe is CVE-2024-45297?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Discourse

CVE-2024-45297

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Users can see topics with a hidden tag if they know the label/name of that tag. This issue has been patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Al…

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.003 (23.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Discourse — versions stable: < 3.3.2, beta: < 3.4.0.beta2, 3.4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-45297?: CVE-2024-45297 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-10-07.
How severe is CVE-2024-45297?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.