Vulnerability CVE-2022-21642


Published: 2022-01-05

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-200

(Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Discourse -> Discourse 

 References:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/702685b6a06ae45a544fc702027f1e4573d94aaa
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-mx3h-vc7w-r9c6

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