CVE-2021-32788

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.7.7 there are two bugs which led to the post creator of a whisper post being revealed to non-staff users. 1: Staff users that creates a whisper post in a personal message is revealed to non-staff participants of the personal message even though the whisper post cannot be seen by them. 2: When a whisper post is before the last post in a post stream, deleting the last post will result in the creator of the whisper post to be revealed to non-staff users as the last poster of the topic.

CVSS v3 4.3 MEDIUM
CVSS v2.0 4.0 MEDIUM

4.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

4.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Exploitability : 8.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dbdf61196d9e964e8823793d2e7f856595fea4d9	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2021-07-27 22:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 18:28

NVD link : CVE-2021-32788

Mitre link : CVE-2021-32788

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-32788

JSON object : View

Products Affected

discourse

discourse

CWE

CWE-668

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

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