CVE-2022-35921: Improper Privilege Management

August 1, 2022 (updated July 21, 2023)

fof/byobu is a private discussions extension for Flarum forum. Affected versions were found to not respect private discussion disablement by users. Users of Byobu should update the extension to version 1.1.7, where this has been patched. Users of Byobu with Flarum 1.0 or 1.1 should upgrade to Flarum 1.2 or later, or evaluate the impact this issue has on your forum’s users and choose to disable the extension if needed. There are no workarounds for this issue.

References

github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/byobu/commit/23dcf93a30f948d30c678a96681f7fdefeba5171
github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/byobu/security/advisories/GHSA-6gjm-6wj6-4px5
github.com/advisories/GHSA-6gjm-6wj6-4px5
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-35921

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