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Discourse-calendar exposes members of hidden groups

Moderate
jomaxro published GHSA-jh96-w279-g7r9 Nov 14, 2022

Package

discourse-calendar (Discourse)

Affected versions

0.2

Patched versions

0.3

Description

Impact

Members of private groups or public groups with private members can be listed by users, who can create and edit post events. This vulnerability only affects sites which have discourse post events enabled.

Patches

The latest version of the Discourse Calendar plugin has the patch.

Workarounds

Disable the discourse_post_event_enabled setting to fully mitigate the issue.

Also, it's possible to prevent regular users from using this vulnerability by removing all groups from the discourse_post_event_allowed_on_groups. But note that moderators will still be able to use it.

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2022-41913

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits