VWE-2019-5160 Printable Version

Common Name	None
VWE-ID	VWE-2019-5160
Related Report	None
Severity	LOW
Exploit Difficulty	EASY
Platform	Affects all platforms supported by the vulnerable versions.
Description	Permissions Escalation. A user can create, open, or close discussion topics on the index, as long as the user has global permissions to do the same. Does not affect Lite versions.
Discovered	April 2, 2019
Resolved	May 2, 2019
Patches Available	4.1.0 Beta 1

The versions listed below are known to be affected by this issue. If you are using one of those versions, you should update to a newer release that has no known vulnerabilities.

Notes

While the behavior exists in prior versions, it is only possible to set different permissions for the index node beginning with 4.1.0 Alpha 1. Therefore only versions that share both this ability and the unwanted behavior are considered vulnerable.