Disclosure of the existence of secret categories with custom… (CVE-2024-28242)

Summary

Disclosure of the existence of secret categories with custom backgrounds in Discourse

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that secret categories exist when they have backgrounds set. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should temporarily remove category backgrounds.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami discourse

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.1"}]}]

References

advisory github.com
patch github.com
web nvd.nist.gov