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🛡️ CVE-2025-64528 — discourse

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-202 OSV
5.0
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Description

Users are able to find users by name even when enable_names is off

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 3.5.3, 2025.11.1, and 2025.12.0, an attacker who knows part of a username can find the user and their full name via UI or API, even when enable_names is disabled. Versions 3.5.3, 2025.11.1, and 2025.12.0 contain a fix.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-64528 is classified as CWE-202: Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Data Queries. When trying to keep information confidential, an attacker can often infer some of the information by using statistics.

Affected software

CVE-2025-64528 is recorded against 1 package.

  • discourse

Timeline and source

Published on 8 January 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Other advisories for this package

discourse has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-202: Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Data Queries) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-202
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-01-08
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
discourse

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