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GHSA-6gjm-6wj6-4px5
No affected components available
Impact
Users electing to prevent others starting private discussions with themselves.
Please note that admins and others with appropriate permissions can always bypass this preference, as was the case before.
Patches
Users of Byobu should update the extension to version 1.1.7, where this has been patched. This version is only supported on v1.2.0 and later of Flarum Core.
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.
Workarounds
There are no workarounds for this issue.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. The attacker needs the user to perform some action, like clicking a link. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the integrity of the data.
Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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