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CVE-2022-21642

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Information disclosure
4.3CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions when composing a message from topic the composer user suggestions reveals whisper participants. The issue has been patched in stable version 2.7.13 and beta version 2.8.0.beta11. There is no workaround for this issue and users are advised to upgrade.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

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

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/702685b6a06ae45a544fc702027f1e4573d94aaa ↗