High severity · published Sep 20, 2021
CVE-2021-41082
Discourse is a platform for community discussion
7.5
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Discourse is a platform for community discussion. In affected versions any private message that includes a group had its title and participating user exposed to users that do not have access to the private messages. However, access control for the private messages was not compromised as users were not able to view the posts in the leaked private message despite seeing it in their inbox. The problematic commit was reverted around 32 minutes after it was made. Users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest commit if they are running Discourse against the `tests-passed` branch.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
Discourse · Discourse
before 2021-09-14 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41082
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-41082
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/27bad28c530c89acab35a56b945b6a3924280f4b
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ddb458343dc39a7a8c99467dcd809b444514fe2c
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-vm3x-w6jm-j9vv
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