{"id":"BIT-discourse-2024-24748","summary":"Disclosure of the existence of secret subcategories in Discourse","details":"Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that a secret subcategory exists under a public category which has no public subcategories. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.","aliases":["CVE-2024-24748","GHSA-3qh8-xw23-cq4x"],"modified":"2025-10-08T23:44:38.842879Z","published":"2024-04-01T14:04:47.201Z","database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"severity":"Medium"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/819361ba28f86a1347059af300bb5cca690f9193"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-3qh8-xw23-cq4x"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24748"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"discourse","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/discourse"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/discourse/BIT-discourse-2024-24748.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"}]}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}