Discourse Polls privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Discourse. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Polls Handler. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2021-43793. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Discourse (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Polls Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 12/02/2021 as GHSA-jq7h-44vc-h6qx. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-43793 since 11/16/2021. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 0c6b9df77bac9c6f7c7e2eadf6fe100064afdeab is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Remote: Yes

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: 0c6b9df77bac9c6f7c7e2eadf6fe100064afdeab

Timelineinfo

11/16/2021 🔍
12/02/2021 +16 days 🔍
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12/08/2021 +6 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: GHSA-jq7h-44vc-h6qx
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2021-43793 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2021-43793
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-187451

Entryinfo

Created: 12/02/2021 07:55
Updated: 12/08/2021 13:27
Changes: 12/02/2021 07:55 (49), 12/08/2021 13:21 (2), 12/08/2021 13:27 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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