Medium severity · published Jul 27, 2021
CVE-2021-32788
Discourse is an open source discussion platform
4.3
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 59% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
Discourse · Discourse
before 2.7.7 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32788
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32788
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dbdf61196d9e964e8823793d2e7f856595fea4d9
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92
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