Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-39385 - Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Discourse
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In some rare cases users redeeming an invitation can be added as a participant to several private message topics that they should not be added to. They are not notified of this, it happens transparently in the background. This issue has been resolved in commit `a414520742` and will be included in future releases. Users are advised to upgrade. Users are also advised to set `SiteSetting.max_invites_per_day` to 0 until the patch is installed.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a414520742da8dc9dc976d4fb7b72dbd445813bb
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a414520742da8dc9dc976d4fb7b72dbd445813bb
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-gh5r-j595-qx48
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-gh5r-j595-qx48