BIT-discourse-2022-21642

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    BIT-discourse-2022-21642

    Published: 6 Mar 2024Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026

    Summary: Exposure of whisper participants in discourse

    Details: 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.

    References: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/702685b6a06ae45a544fc702027f1e4573d94aaa, https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-mx3h-vc7w-r9c6, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21642

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: discourse

    Purl: pkg:bitnami/discourse

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.13

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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