Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency Affecting ckan package, versions [2.0,2.9.10) [2.10.0,2.10.3)
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- published 14 Dec 2023
- disclosed 13 Dec 2023
- credit thorge
Introduced: 13 Dec 2023
CVE-2023-50248 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade ckan to version 2.9.10, 2.10.3 or higher.
Overview
ckan is a world’s leading Open Source data portal platform.
It powers dozens of Open Data portals around the world, including data.gov, open.canada.ca and europeandataportal.eu but also regional, research and community organizations.
It makes easy to publish, share and find data online and is fully customizable via extensions and plugins.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency via the /dataset/new endpoint when submitting a POST request with a specially-crafted field. An attacker can create an out-of-memory error on the hosting server by submitting a malicious payload.
Note: This is only exploitable if the user has permissions to create or edit datasets.