CVE-2022-36068 (GCVE-0-2022-36068)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-29 19:45 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Discourse moderators can edit themes via the API
Summary
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Severity
7.2 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-23 15:48 UTC
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/a… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18418 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ae1… | x_refsource_MISC |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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