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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:53

Modified

2025-11-06 13:25

Summary

Exposure of poll options and votes to unauthorized users in Discourse

Details

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Attackers with details specific to a poll in a topic can use the /polls/grouped_poll_results endpoint to view the content of options in the poll and the number of votes for groups of poll participants. This impacts private polls where the results were intended to only be viewable by authorized users. This issue is patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. There is no workaround for this issue apart from upgrading to the fixed version.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "3.1.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-43814"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.2.0:beta1:*:*:beta:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:beta:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Low"
  },
  "details": "Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Attackers with details specific to a poll in a topic can use the `/polls/grouped_poll_results` endpoint to view the content of options in the poll and the number of votes for groups of poll participants. This impacts private polls where the results were intended to only be viewable by authorized users. This issue is patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. There is no workaround for this issue apart from upgrading to the fixed version.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2023-43814",
  "modified": "2025-11-06T13:25:46.476Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T10:53:52.288Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-3x57-846g-7qcw"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43814"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Exposure of poll options and votes to unauthorized users in Discourse"
}

CVE-2023-43814 (GCVE-0-2023-43814)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-16 21:09 – Updated: 2024-09-13 18:59

Title

Exposure of poll options and votes to unauthorized users in Discourse

Summary

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Attackers with details specific to a poll in a topic can use the `/polls/grouped_poll_results` endpoint to view the content of options in the poll and the number of votes for groups of poll participants. This impacts private polls where the results were intended to only be viewable by authorized users. This issue is patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. There is no workaround for this issue apart from upgrading to the fixed version.

Severity ?

3.7 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/a…

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	discourse	discourse	Affected: stable <= 3.1.1 Affected: beta <= 3.2.0.beta2

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                  }
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    "dateReserved": "2023-09-22T14:51:42.342Z",
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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2023-43814 (GCVE-0-2023-43814)

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