CVE-2023-23935CWE-200

Presence of restricted personal Discourse messages may be leaked if tagged with a tag

Low · published March 16, 2023

CVSS v3.1
3.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Discourse is an open-source messaging platform. In versions 3.0.1 and prior on the `stable` branch and versions 3.1.0.beta2 and prior on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, the count of personal messages displayed for a tag is a count of all personal messages regardless of whether the personal message is visible to a given user. As a result, any users can technically poll a sensitive tag to determine if a new personal message is created even if the user does not have access to the personal message.

In the patched versions, the count of personal messages tagged with a given tag is hidden by default. To revert to the old behaviour of displaying the count of personal messages for a given tag, an admin may enable the `display_personal_messages_tag_counts` site setting.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.5 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00501 · 42.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Published
2023-03-16T20:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 MAR 20:21Z
    Presence of restricted personal Discourse messages may be leaked if tagged with a tag
    cvelistv5