Medium severity · published Mar 20, 2024
CVE-2024-27286
Moving single messages from public to private streams leaves them accessible
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. When a user moves a Zulip message, they have the option to move all messages in the topic, move only subsequent messages as well, or move just a single message. If the user chose to just move one message, and was moving it from a public stream to a private stream, Zulip would successfully move the message, -- but active users who did not have access to the private stream, but whose client had already received the message, would continue to see the message in the public stream until they reloaded their client. Additionally, Zulip did not remove view permissions on the message from recently-active users, allowing the message to show up in the "All messages" view or in search results, but not in "Inbox" or "Recent conversations" views. While the bug has been present since moving messages between streams was first introduced in version 3.0, this option became much more common starting in Zulip 8.0, when the default option in the picker for moving the very last message in a conversation was changed. This issue is fixed in Zulip Server 8.3. No known workarounds are available.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ZU
zulip · zulip
>= 3.0, < 8.3 · source: vendor
ZS
Zulip Server · Zulip
3.0 before 8.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27286
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27286
Patch
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/3db1733310ddd944c2e690ba673232345c928eec
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-478x-rfqr-w4jf
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