What is CVE-2024-56197?

CVE-2024-56197 is a low-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 2.2/10. Published 2025-02-04.

How severe is CVE-2024-56197?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.2 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Discourse

CVE-2024-56197

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. PM titles and metadata can be read by other users when the "PM tags allowed for groups" option is enabled, the other user is a member of a group added to this option, and the PM has been tagged. This issue has been patched in the latest `stable`, `beta` and `tests-passed` versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should remove all groups from the the "PM tags allowed for groups" option.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.003 (26.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Discourse — versions beta: <= 3.4.0.beta4, stable: <= 3.3.3, 3.4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-56197?: CVE-2024-56197 is a low-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 2.2/10. Published 2025-02-04.
How severe is CVE-2024-56197?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.2 out of 10.