Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
None
Attack Vector
Network
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CVE-2023-28623

Disclosure Date: May 19, 2023
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Description

Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool with unique topic-based threading. In the event that 1: ZulipLDAPAuthBackend and an external authentication backend (any aside of ZulipLDAPAuthBackend and EmailAuthBackend) are the only ones enabled in AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS in /etc/zulip/settings.py and 2: The organization permissions don’t require invitations to join. An attacker can create a new account in the organization with an arbitrary email address in their control that’s not in the organization’s LDAP directory. The impact is limited to installations which have this specific combination of authentication backends as described above in addition to having Invitations are required for joining this organization organization permission disabled. This issue has been addressed in version 6.2. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may enable the Invitations are required for joining this organization organization permission to prevent this issue.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
3.7 Low
Impact Score:
1.4
Exploitability Score:
2.2
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
High
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
Low
Availability (A):
None

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