CVE-2024-27090 Decidim vulnerable to data disclosure through the embed feature

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

Attackers can access data from unpublished or private resources if they know the slug or URL, affecting Decidim users.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-27090?

CVE-2024-27090 is a medium-severity vulnerability in decidim, published on 10 Jul 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. If an attacker can infer the slug or URL of an unpublished or private resource, and this resource can be embbeded (such as a Participatory Process, an Assembly, a Proposal, a Result, etc), then some data of this resource could be accessed. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.27.6.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-27090?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including decidim.

PackageAffectedFixed in
decidim RubyGemsAll versions0.27.6
decidim RubyGemsAll versions0.27.6

How do I fix CVE-2024-27090?

Upgrade decidim to 0.27.6 or later.

Is CVE-2024-27090 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-27090 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-qcj6-vxwx-4rqv.

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