CVE-2021-32788 MEDIUM

CVE-2021-32788: Post creator of a whisper post can be revealed to non-staff users in Discourse

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-668
Published July 27, 2021
Last update August 3, 2024

CVSS base score

4.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 27, 2021 CVE published
August 3, 2024 Record updated