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High · 8.2 CVE-2025-53102 EUVD-2025-23042

Discourse's WebAuthn challenge isn't cleared from user session after authentication

Published Jul 29, 2025 · Updated Jul 29, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform. Prior to version 3.4.7 on the `stable` branch and version 3.5.0.beta.8 on the `tests-passed` branch, upon issuing a physical security key for 2FA, the server generates a WebAuthn challenge, which the client signs. The challenge is not cleared from the user’s session after authentication, potentially allowing reuse and increasing security risk. This is fixed in versions 3.4.7 and 3.5.0.beta.8.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse >= 3.5.0.beta1, < 3.5.0.beta.8, < 3.4.7 —

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