CVE-2024-45051: Bypass of email address validation via encoded email addresses in Discourse

First published: Mon Oct 07 2024(Updated: )

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A maliciously crafted email address could allow an attacker to bypass domain-based restrictions and gain access to private sites, categories and/or groups. This issue has been patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. All users area are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Credit: security-advisories@github.com

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