CVE-2022-39385 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-39385: Users erroneously and transparently added to private messages in Discourse

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-200 · Info exposure
Published November 14, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 14, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated