CVE Vulnerability

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.

4 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

4.3 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

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

References
Link Resource
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
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5 Patch Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

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

Published : 2021-07-27 10:15

Updated : 2021-08-05 01:31

NVD link : CVE-2021-32788

Mitre link : CVE-2021-32788

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-668