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GHSA-6GJM-6WJ6-4PX5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-08-06 05:20 – Updated: 2022-08-06 05:20

Summary

Byobu user preference to prevent private discussions being started are not respected

Details

Impact

Users electing to prevent others starting private discussions with themselves.

Please note that admins and others with appropriate permissions can always bypass this preference, as was the case before.

Patches

Users of Byobu should update the extension to version 1.1.7, where this has been patched. This version is only supported on v1.2.0 and later of Flarum Core.

Users of Byobu with Flarum 1.0 or 1.1 should upgrade to Flarum 1.2 or later, or evaluate the impact this issue has on your forum's users and choose to disable the extension if needed.

Workarounds

There are no workarounds for this issue.

Severity

3.5 (Low)


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

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      },
      "ranges": [
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              "introduced": "0.3.0-beta.2"
            },
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              "fixed": "1.1.7"
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-35921"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-269",
      "CWE-863"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-08-06T05:20:52Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-08-01T22:15:00Z",
    "severity": "LOW"
  },
  "details": "### Impact\nUsers electing to prevent others starting private discussions with themselves.\n\n\u003e Please note that admins and others with appropriate permissions can always bypass this preference, as was the case before.\n\n### Patches\nUsers of Byobu should update the extension to version 1.1.7, where this has been patched. **This version is only supported on v1.2.0 and later of Flarum Core.**\n\nUsers of Byobu with Flarum 1.0 or 1.1 should upgrade to Flarum 1.2 or later, or evaluate the impact this issue has on your forum\u0027s users and choose to disable the extension if needed.\n\n### Workarounds\nThere are no workarounds for this issue.",
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  "modified": "2022-08-06T05:20:52Z",
  "published": "2022-08-06T05:20:52Z",
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      "url": "https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/byobu/security/advisories/GHSA-6gjm-6wj6-4px5"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-35921"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/byobu/commit/23dcf93a30f948d30c678a96681f7fdefeba5171"
    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/byobu"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Byobu user preference to prevent private discussions being started are not respected"
}

CVE-2022-35921 (GCVE-0-2022-35921)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-01 21:50 – Updated: 2025-04-23 17:54

Title

User preference to prevent private discussions not respected in fof/byobu

Summary

fof/byobu is a private discussions extension for Flarum forum. Affected versions were found to not respect private discussion disablement by users. Users of Byobu should update the extension to version 1.1.7, where this has been patched. Users of Byobu with Flarum 1.0 or 1.1 should upgrade to Flarum 1.2 or later, or evaluate the impact this issue has on your forum's users and choose to disable the extension if needed. There are no workarounds for this issue.

Severity

3.5 (Low)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 14:02 UTC

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7712 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/byobu/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/byobu/commit/2…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
FriendsOfFlarum	byobu	Affected: >=0.3.0-beta.2, < 1.1.7

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