CVE-2025-22601 (GCVE-0-2025-22601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-04 20:53 – Updated: 2025-02-11 21:32
VLAI
Title
Client Side Path Traversal using activate account route in Discourse
Summary
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can trick a target user to make changes to their own username via carefully crafted link using the `activate-account` route. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Severity
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse Affected: beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3
Affected: tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta3
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