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Prevent unauthorized access to summary details in Discourse

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. User summaries are accessible for anonymous users even when `hide_user_profiles_from_public` is enabled. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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CVEs
CVE-2023-44391
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3 Nov 2026, 02:28 UTC · Revision 1

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Prevent unauthorized access to summary details in Discourse

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Oct 2023, 21:22 UTC

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. User summaries are accessible for anonymous users even when `hide_user_profiles_from_public` is enabled. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

osv:CVE-2023-44391
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-44391",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Prevent unauthorized access to summary details in Discourse",
    "summary": "Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. User summaries are accessible for anonymous users even when `hide_user_profiles_from_public` is enabled. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-44391",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        "GHSA-7px5-fqcf-7mfr"
      ],
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        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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          ],
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:25.282441567Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/44xxx/CVE-2023-44391.json",
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        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44391"
      ],
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      }
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 491888,
  "published_at": "2023-10-16T21:22:24.719+00:00"
}