CVE-2021-37693 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2021-37693

Re-use of email tokens in Discourse

5.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Discourse is an open-source platform for community discussion. In Discourse before versions 2.7.8 and 2.8.0.beta4, when adding additional email addresses to an existing account on a Discourse site an email token is generated as part of the email verification process. Deleting the additional email address does not invalidate an unused token which can then be used in other contexts, including reseting a password.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

discourse

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Affected Software

discourse

Vulnerable Versions:

< 2.7.8

Timeline

Official Publish: August 13th, 2021

Last Modified: August 4th, 2024

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-640 CWE-613

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie

Credential Access

T1078 Valid Accounts

T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material

Defense Evasion

T1021 Remote Services

Lateral Movement

T1562 Impair Defenses

Defense Evasion