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User preference to prevent private discussions being started are not respected

Low
davwheat published GHSA-6gjm-6wj6-4px5 Jul 31, 2022

Package

composer fof/byobu (Composer)

Affected versions

>=0.3.0-beta.2,<1.1.7

Patched versions

1.1.7

Description

Impact

Users electing to prevent others starting private discussions with themselves.

Please note that admins and others with appropriate permissions can always bypass this preference, as was the case before.

Patches

Users of Byobu should update the extension to version 1.1.7, where this has been patched. This version is only supported on v1.2.0 and later of Flarum Core.

Users of Byobu with Flarum 1.0 or 1.1 should upgrade to Flarum 1.2 or later, or evaluate the impact this issue has on your forum's users and choose to disable the extension if needed.

Workarounds

There are no workarounds for this issue.

Severity

Low
3.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2022-35921

Weaknesses