CVE - CVE-2023-22489

CVE-ID
CVE-2023-22489	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
Flarum is a discussion platform for websites. If the first post of a discussion is permanently deleted but the discussion stays visible, any actor who can view the discussion is able to create a new reply via the REST API, no matter the reply permission or lock status. This includes users that don't have a validated email. Guests cannot successfully create a reply because the API will fail with a 500 error when the user ID 0 is inserted into the database. This happens because when the first post of a discussion is permanently deleted, the `first_post_id` attribute of the discussion becomes `null` which causes access control to be skipped for all new replies. Flarum automatically makes discussions with zero comments invisible so an additional condition for this vulnerability is that the discussion must have at least one approved reply so that `discussions.comment_count` is still above zero after the post deletion. This can open the discussion to uncontrolled spam or just unintentional replies if users still had their tab open before the vulnerable discussion was locked and then post a reply when they shouldn't be able to. In combination with the email notification settings, this could also be used as a way to send unsolicited emails. Versions between `v1.3.0` and `v1.6.3` are impacted. The vulnerability has been fixed and published as flarum/core v1.6.3. All communities running Flarum should upgrade as soon as possible. There are no known workarounds.
References
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MISC:https://github.com/flarum/framework/commit/12f14112a0ecd1484d97330b82beb2a145919015 URL:https://github.com/flarum/framework/commit/12f14112a0ecd1484d97330b82beb2a145919015 MISC:https://github.com/flarum/framework/releases/tag/v1.6.3 URL:https://github.com/flarum/framework/releases/tag/v1.6.3 MISC:https://github.com/flarum/framework/security/advisories/GHSA-hph3-hv3c-7725 URL:https://github.com/flarum/framework/security/advisories/GHSA-hph3-hv3c-7725
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GitHub (maintainer security advisories)
Date Record Created
20221229	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20221229)
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