Access Control Bypass Affecting org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-scheduler-api package, versions [,14.10.9)[15.0.0,15.4-rc-1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGXWIKIPLATFORM-5855823
  • published24 Aug 2023
  • disclosed24 Aug 2023
  • creditMichael Hamann

Introduced: 24 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-40573  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-scheduler-api to version 14.10.9, 15.4-rc-1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass. This issue allows an attacker to escalate privileges from simple edit rights to programming rights. The underlying root cause is that the job executor checks the rights of the content author of the document that contains the job but the job script can be changed without changing the content author.

Note:

For successful exploitation, the attacker needs to have edit rights on a document whose content has last been changed by a user with programming rights.

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