Information disclosure in Discourse

CVE-2024-52589

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Moderators can see the Screened emails list in the admin dashboard, and through that can learn the email of a user. This problem is patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users unable to upgrade should remove moderator role from untrusted users.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 2.2 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (15.9th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 16th percentile — 15.9% 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-2024-52589: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-52589?
CVE-2024-52589 is a low-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 2.2/10. Published 2024-12-19.
How severe is CVE-2024-52589?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.2 out of 10.