{"id":"CVE-2022-21677","summary":"Group advanced search option may leak group and group's members visibility ","details":"Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Discourse groups can be configured with varying visibility levels for the group as well as the group members. By default, a newly created group has its visibility set to public and the group's members visibility set to public as well. However, a group's visibility and the group's members visibility can be configured such that it is restricted to logged on users, members of the group or staff users. A vulnerability has been discovered in versions prior to 2.7.13 and 2.8.0.beta11 where the group advanced search option does not respect the group's visibility and members visibility level. As such, a group with restricted visibility or members visibility can be revealed through search with the right search option. This issue is patched in `stable` version 2.7.13, `beta` version 2.8.0.beta11, and `tests-passed` version 2.8.0.beta11 versions of Discourse. There are no workarounds aside from upgrading.","aliases":["BIT-discourse-2022-21677","GHSA-768r-ppv4-5r27"],"modified":"2026-07-11T03:53:21.394152698Z","published":"2022-01-14T16:45:17Z","database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-200"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/21xxx/CVE-2022-21677.json"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/21xxx/CVE-2022-21677.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-768r-ppv4-5r27"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21677"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fff8b98485561b12d070c0a8c39f4e503813ab44"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"introduced":"05c1d3c9cdd7f3e365bedc397dd92a7e7bc2c40f"},{"fixed":"fff8b98485561b12d070c0a8c39f4e503813ab44"}],"database_specific":{"source":["CPE_RANGE","CPE_STRING","REFERENCES"],"cpe":["cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta10:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta6:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta7:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta8:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta9:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"2.7.12"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta1"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta1"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta10"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta10"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta2"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta2"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta3"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta3"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta4"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta4"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta5"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta5"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta6"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta6"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta7"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta7"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta8"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta8"},{"introduced":"2.8.0-beta9"},{"last_affected":"2.8.0-beta9"}]}}],"versions":["2.8.0-beta1","2.8.0-beta10","2.8.0-beta2","2.8.0-beta3","2.8.0-beta4","2.8.0-beta5","2.8.0-beta6","2.8.0-beta7","2.8.0-beta8","2.8.0-beta9","v2.8.0.beta10","v2.8.0.beta9","v2.8.0.beta8","v2.8.0.beta7","v2.8.0.beta6","v2.8.0.beta5","v2.8.0.beta4","v2.8.0.beta3","v2.8.0.beta2","v2.8.0.beta1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-21677.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"}]}