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CVE-2022-36090GHSA-JGC8-GVCX-9VFX

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore Improper Authorization check for inactive users

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 13.10.5, 14.3-RC-1, 14.3-rc-1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

XWiki Platform Old Core is a core package for XWiki Platform, a generic wiki platform. Prior to versions 13.1.0.5 and 14.3-rc-1, some resources are missing a check for inactive (not yet activated or disabled) users in XWiki, including the REST service. This means a disabled user can enable themselves using a REST call. On the same way some resources handler created by extensions are not protected by default, so an inactive user could perform actions for such extensions. This issue has existed since at least version 1.1 of XWiki for instance configured with the email activation required for new users. Now it's more critical for versions 11.3-rc-1 and later since the maintainers provided the capability to disable user without deleting them and encouraged using that feature. XWiki 14.3-rc-1 and XWiki 13.10.5 contain a patch. There is no workaround for this other than upgrading XWiki.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • xwiki xwiki-platform

    From 1.1 · fixed in 13.10.5; From 14.0 · fixed in 14.3-RC-1

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcoreMaven

    From 1.1 · fixed in 13.10.5

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcoreMaven

    From 14.0 · fixed in 14.3-rc-1

References 3

GitHub · xwiki/xwiki-platform

jira.xwiki.org