CVE-2017-0896

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Published 2017-06-02 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
VIR risk
6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
zulipzulip_server1.3.0
zulipzulip_server1.3.1
zulipzulip_server1.3.2
zulipzulip_server1.3.3
zulipzulip_server1.3.4
zulipzulip_server1.3.6
zulipzulip_server1.3.7
zulipzulip_server1.3.8
zulipzulip_server1.3.9
zulipzulip_server1.3.10
zulipzulip_server1.3.11
zulipzulip_server1.3.12
zulipzulip_server1.3.13
zulipzulip_server1.4.0
zulipzulip_server1.4.1
zulipzulip_server1.4.2
zulipzulip_server1.4.3
zulipzulip_server1.5.0
zulipzulip_server1.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-285 CWE-862

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.