Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy package, versions [,5.2.7)[6.0.0,6.0.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EZSYSTEMSEZPUBLISHLEGACY-2364516
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2005

CVE-2005-4853  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy to version 5.2.7, 6.0.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The default configuration of the forum package in eZ publish 3.5 before 3.5.5, 3.6 before 3.6.2, 3.7 before 3.7.0rc2, and 3.8 before 20050818 does not restrict edit permissions to a posting's owner, which allows remote authenticated users to edit arbitrary postings.

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