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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:03

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Users erroneously and transparently added to private messages in Discourse

Details

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.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.8.10"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-39385"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2022-39385",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:03:32.075Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a414520742da8dc9dc976d4fb7b72dbd445813bb"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-gh5r-j595-qx48"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39385"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Users erroneously and transparently added to private messages in Discourse"
}

CVE-2022-39385 (GCVE-0-2022-39385)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:37

Title

Users erroneously and transparently added to private messages in Discourse

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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:54 UTC

CWE

CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/a…
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a41…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
discourse	discourse	Affected: Stable: <= 2.8.10 Affected: Beta: <= 2.9.0.beta11

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