What is CVE-2022-31096?

CVE-2022-31096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Improper Preservation of Permissions. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2022-06-27.

How severe is CVE-2022-31096?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.7 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Discourse

CVE-2022-31096

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Under certain conditions, a logged in user can redeem an invite with an email that either doesn't match the invite's email or does not adhere to the email domain restriction of an invite link. The impact of this flaw is aggravated when the invite has been configured to add the user that accepts the invite into restricted groups. Once a user has been incorrectly added to a restricted group, the user may then be able to view content which that are restricted to the respective group. Users are advised to upgrade to the current stable releases. There are no known workarounds to this issue.

EPSS: 0.005 (39.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Discourse — versions < 2.9.0.beta6; beta brach, < 2.8.5; stable branch, 2.9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-281 — Improper Preservation of Permissions

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-31096?: CVE-2022-31096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Improper Preservation of Permissions. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2022-06-27.
How severe is CVE-2022-31096?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.7 out of 10.