Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-32788 - Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in Discourse
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dbdf61196d9e964e8823793d2e7f856595fea4d9
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dbdf61196d9e964e8823793d2e7f856595fea4d9
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92