CVE-2021-43792 (GCVE-0-2021-43792)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-01 19:35 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:03
VLAI
Title
Notifications leak in Discourse
Summary
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a vulnerability affects users of tag groups who use the "Tags are visible only to the following groups" feature. A tag group may only allow a certain group (e.g. staff) to view certain tags. Users who were tracking or watching the tags via /preferences/tags, then have their staff status revoked will still see notifications related to the tag, but will not see the tag on each topic. This issue has been patched in stable version 2.7.11. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7994 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
discourse discourse Affected: stable < 2.7.11
Affected: beta < 2.8.0.beta9
Affected: tests-passed < 2.8.0.beta9
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