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CVE-2022-36066

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-36066 is a critical vulnerability affecting Discourse, an open-source discussion platform, in versions prior to 2.8.9 (stable) and 2.9.0.beta10 (beta/tests-passed). This flaw allows authenticated administrators to achieve remote code execution by uploading specially crafted Zip or Gzip Tar archives, enabling arbitrary file writes. Rated 7.2 HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), it presents a significant risk due to its high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.8.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.9.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.1CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0158 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 5,538 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / discourse/discourse/commit/b27d5626d208a22c516a0adfda7554b67b493835
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / discourse/discourse/pull/18421
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-grvh-qcpg-hfmv
Third Party Advisory