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CVE-2017-0896

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Zulip — Zulip Server

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