Medium severity · published Feb 4, 2025
CVE-2024-53994
Potential bypass of chat permissions in Discourse
4.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions users who disable chat in preferences could still be reachable in some cases. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable the chat plugin within site settings.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 21% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
discourse · discourse
stable: <= 3.3.2; beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3; tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta3 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53994
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53994
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-mrpw-gwj7-98r6
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