CVE-2023-31142

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.11%

Discourse's general category permissions could be set back to default

Published: 3/6/2024Modified: 10/15/2025

Also known as:GHSA-286w-97m2-78x2BIT-discourse-2023-31142

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.4 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta5 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, if a site has modified their general category permissions, they could be set back to the default. This issue is patched in version 3.0.4 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta5 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. A workaround, only if you are modifying the general category permissions, is to use a new category for the same purpose.

Affected packages (1)

Bitnami/discoursefrom 0, < 3.0.4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References (2)

WEBhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-286w-97m2-78x2
WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-31142