Vulnerability CVE-2022-23602


Published: 2022-02-01

Description:
Nimforum is a lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim. In versions prior to 2.2.0 any forum user can create a new thread/post with an include referencing a file local to the host operating system. Nimforum will render the file if able. This can also be done silently by using NimForum's post "preview" endpoint. Even if NimForum is running as a non-critical user, the forum.json secrets can be stolen. Version 2.2.0 of NimForum includes patches for this vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as is possible. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Type:

CWE-287

(Improper Authentication)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.5/10
4.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Nim-lang -> Docutils 
Nim-lang -> Nimforum 

 References:
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum/security/advisories/GHSA-q3vh-x957-wr75
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/cb894c7094fb49014f85815a9dafc38b5dda743e

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