Potential bypass of chat permissions in Discourse (CVE-2024-53994)

Summary

Potential bypass of chat permissions in Discourse

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

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

Affected packages

Bitnami discourse

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.3.3"}]}]

References

advisory github.com
web nvd.nist.gov