High severity · published Nov 2, 2022
CVE-2022-39356
Discourse user account takeover via email and invite link
8.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Discourse is a platform for community discussion. Users who receive an invitation link that is not scoped to a single email address can enter any non-admin user's email and gain access to their account when accepting the invitation. All users should upgrade to the latest version. A workaround is temporarily disabling invitations with `SiteSetting.max_invites_per_day = 0` or scope them to individual email addresses.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
discourse · discourse
<= 2.8.9; <= 2.9.0.beta10 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39356
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39356
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18817
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-x8w7-rwmr-w278
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