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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-03-03 13:29

Modified

2026-03-03 13:59

Summary

DIscourse has DM communication-preference bypass when adding members

Details

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, DM communication-preference bypass when adding members via Chat::AddUsersToChannel — a user could add targets who have blocked/ignored/muted them to an existing DM channel, bypassing per-recipient PM restrictions that are enforced during DM channel creation. Versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0 patch the issue. No known workarounds are available.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2025.12.2"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "2026.1.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2026.1.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-27152"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Low"
  },
  "details": "Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, DM communication-preference bypass when adding members via `Chat::AddUsersToChannel` \u2014 a user could add targets who have blocked/ignored/muted them to an existing DM channel, bypassing per-recipient PM restrictions that are enforced during DM channel creation. Versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0 patch the issue. No known workarounds are available.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2026-27152",
  "modified": "2026-03-03T13:59:21.562Z",
  "published": "2026-03-03T13:29:21.569Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-f8ff-pxg3-7967"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27152"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "DIscourse has DM communication-preference bypass when adding members"
}

CVE-2026-27152 (GCVE-0-2026-27152)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-26 20:00 – Updated: 2026-03-03 01:41

Title

DIscourse has DM communication-preference bypass when adding members

Summary

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, DM communication-preference bypass when adding members via `Chat::AddUsersToChannel` — a user could add targets who have blocked/ignored/muted them to an existing DM channel, bypassing per-recipient PM restrictions that are enforced during DM channel creation. Versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0 patch the issue. No known workarounds are available.

Severity ?

1.3 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

CWE

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: < 2025.12.2 Affected: >= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.1 Affected: >= 2026.2.0-latest, < 2026.2.0

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                "timestamp": "2026-03-03T01:41:05.689829Z",
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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2026-27152 (GCVE-0-2026-27152)

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