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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-47930 EUVD-2025-28135

Zulip Server has access control bypass for restrictions on creation of specific channel types

Published May 15, 2025 · Updated May 16, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Zulip is an open-source team chat application. Starting in version 10.0 and prior to version 10.3, the "Who can create public channels" access control mechanism can be circumvented by creating a private or web-public channel, and then changing the channel privacy to public. A similar technique works for creating private channels without permission, though such a process requires either the API or modifying the HTML, as we do mark the "private" radio button as disabled in such cases. Version 10.3 contains a patch.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
zulip zulip >= 10.0, < 10.3 —

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