CVE-2025-24808CWE-362

Discourse has race condition when adding users to a group DM

Medium · published March 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions `3.3.4` on the `stable` branch and `3.4.0.beta5` on the `beta` branch, someone who is about to reach the limit of users in a group DM may send requests to add new users in parallel. The requests might all go through ignoring the limit due to a race condition. The patch in versions `3.3.4` and `3.4.0.beta5` uses the `lock` step in service to wrap part of the `add_users_to_channel` service inside a distributed lock/mutex in order to avoid the race condition.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00218 · 11.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Published
2025-03-26T14:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 MAR 14:08Z
    Discourse has race condition when adding users to a group DM
    cvelistv5