CVE-2017-0896

medium

Description

Zulip Server 1.5.1 and below suffer from an error in the implementation of the invite_by_admins_only setting in the Zulip group chat application server that allowed an authenticated user to invite other users to join a Zulip organization even if the organization was configured to prevent this.

References

https://hackerone.com/reports/224210

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/zulip-announce/sUYeJv-fFmg/2TU2TLmNAwAJ

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/1f48fa27672170bba3b9a97384905bb04c18761b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-02

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00148