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CVE-2025-22601

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Publication date:
04/02/2025
Last modified:
25/09/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.10 LOW
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
3.10
Severity 3.x
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:beta:*:*:* 3.4.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.4.0:beta1:*:*:beta:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.4.0:beta2:*:*:beta:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.4.0:beta3:*:*:beta:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools