CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-30478
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-04-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
An issue was discovered in Zulip Server before 3.4. A bug in the implementation of the can_forge_sender permission (previously is_api_super_user) resulted in users with this permission being able to send messages appearing as if sent by a system bot, including to other organizations hosted by the same Zulip installation.
Affected configurations
• zulip zulip server (< 3.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://blog.zulip.com/2021/04/14/zulip-server-3-4/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.zulip.com/2021/04/14/zulip-server-3-4/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory