Users who can send invitations can erroneously add users to streams during invitation in Zulip
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool with unique topic-based threading. Zulip administrators can configure Zulip to limit who can add users to streams, and separately to limit who can invite users to the organization. In Zulip Server 6.1 and below, the UI which allows a user to invite a new user also allows them to set the streams that the new user is invited to -- even if the inviting user would not have permissions to add an existing user to streams. While such a configuration is likely rare in practice, the behavior does violate security-related controls. This does not let a user invite new users to streams they cannot see, or would not be able to add users to if they had that general permission. This issue has been addressed in version 6.2. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may limit sending of invitations down to users who also have the permission to add users to streams.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-32677
References
More Zulip vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-20810 Zulip: Anonymous File Access After Disabling Spectator Access CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2026-21062 Zulip: Path Traversal in Import CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2021-19605 RabbitMQ exposes ports with weak default secrets in Zulip Server CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-13210 Zulip Server insufficient authorization for changing bot roles CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2021-02864 Improper Access Control in zulip/zulip CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2022-16387 Crafted link in Zulip message can cause disclosure of credentials CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
Sources
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