What is CVE-2024-49765?

CVE-2024-49765 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-12-19.

How severe is CVE-2024-49765?

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

Vulnerability in Discourse

CVE-2024-49765

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Sites that are using discourse connect but still have local logins enabled could allow attackers to bypass discourse connect to create accounts and login. This problem is patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users unable to upgrade who are using discourse connect may disable all other login methods as a workaround.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.4th 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 beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3, 3.4.0, stable: <= 3.3.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-359 — Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-49765?: CVE-2024-49765 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-12-19.
How severe is CVE-2024-49765?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.