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Discourse 2.7.7 Security Update

🗓️ 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType 
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A new Discourse update includes two security fixes. Update to version 2.7.7 or late

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:discourse:discourse";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.146396");
  script_version("2025-04-11T15:45:04+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-04-11 15:45:04 +0000 (Fri, 11 Apr 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-07-29 07:06:10 +0000 (Thu, 29 Jul 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-08-05 13:31:00 +0000 (Thu, 05 Aug 2021)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-32788");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Discourse 2.7.7 Security Update");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_discourse_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("discourse/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A new Discourse update includes two security fixes.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The following flaw exists / The following security
  fix is included:

  - CVE-2021-32788: There are two bugs which led to the post creator of a whisper post being
  revealed to non-staff users. Staff users that creates a whisper post in a personal message is
  revealed to non-staff participants of the personal message even though the whisper post cannot
  be seen by them. When a whisper post is before the last post in a post stream, deleting the last
  post will result in the creator of the whisper post to be revealed to non-staff users as the last
  poster of the topic.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Discourse prior to version 2.7.7.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.7.7 or later.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-7-7-security-release/197959");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "2.7.7")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "2.7.7", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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