Medium
Security advisory
An error in the implementation of an autosubscribe feature in the check_stream_exists route of the Zulip group chat application server before 1.4.3 allowed an authenticated user to subscribe to a private stream that should have required an invitation from an existing member to join. The issue affects all previously released versions of the Zulip server.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-0881
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An error in the implementation of an autosubscribe feature in the check_stream_exists route of the Zulip group chat application server before 1.4.3 allowed an authenticated user to subscribe to a private stream that should have required an invitation from an existing member to join. The issue affects all previously released versions of the Zulip server.
osv:CVE-2017-0881
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:05.930937873Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://groups.google.com/d/msg/zulip-announce/VyawgRuoY34/NTBwnTArGwAJ"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 380033,
"published_at": "2017-03-28T02:59:01.463+00:00"
}