Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting concrete5/concrete5 package, versions <9.0.0RC1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.7% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-CONCRETE5CONCRETE5-1535218
  • published30 Jul 2021
  • disclosed30 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-36766  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade concrete5/concrete5 to version 9.0.0RC1 or higher.

Overview

concrete5/concrete5 is a concrete5 open source CMS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data. The vulnerable code is located within the controllers/single_page/dashboard/system/environment/logging.php Logging::update_logging() method.

User input passed through the logFile request parameter is not properly sanitized before being used in a call to the file_exists() PHP function. This can be exploited by malicious users to inject arbitrary PHP objects into the application scope (PHP Object Injection via phar:// stream wrapper), allowing them to carry out a variety of attacks, such as executing arbitrary PHP code.

Details

Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.

Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.

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