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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2021-32788 Detail

Description

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dbdf61196d9e964e8823793d2e7f856595fea4d9 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dbdf61196d9e964e8823793d2e7f856595fea4d9 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92 Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere cwe source acceptance level NIST   GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-32788
NVD Published Date:
07/27/2021
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
GitHub, Inc.