Vulnerability in chatwoot

[ Description ]Official description

Chatwoot before 4.17.0 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows authenticated agent bots to access other accounts by supplying a foreign contact inbox source_id. Attackers can call the conversations create endpoint with another account's source_id to create or retrieve conversations and post messages to that account's contacts.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/blob/v4.16.2/app/controllers/api/v1/accounts/conversations…
• github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/blob/v4.16.2/app/policies/inbox_policy.rb
• github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/commit/2d173978fcd64e6927b407c171095a3a7ceb03dd
• github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/pull/15521
• github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/releases/tag/v4.17.0
• www.vulncheck.com/advisories/chatwoot-before-4.17.0-cross-account-authorization-bypass-…