Authenticated custom-field disclosure via wholesale group serialization
Published Feb 1, 2024 · Updated Aug 1, 2024
Information disclosure in Discourse Group Membership IP Blocks allows remote authenticated users to read group custom fields. The plugin's BasicGroupSerializer returns object.custom_fields wholesale instead of selecting its own ip_blocks_list field, exposing fields registered by other plugins. A low-privilege account can retrieve affected group responses over the network; the consequence is limited to confidentiality and requires another plugin to store sensitive values there.
Summary
What happened
Information disclosure in Discourse Group Membership IP Blocks allows remote authenticated users to read group custom fields. The plugin's BasicGroupSerializer returns object.custom_fields wholesale instead of selecting its own ip_blocks_list field, exposing fields registered by other plugins. A low-privilege account can retrieve affected group responses over the network; the consequence is limited to confidentiality and requires another plugin to store sensitive values there.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-24755
- Published
- Feb 1, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 1, 2024
- Vendor
- Discourse
- Product
- Discourse Group Membership IP Blocks
- Classifications
- CWE-200, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Feb 1, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 1, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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