Improper Authentication Affecting ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy package, versions [3.4.4,3.7.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EZSYSTEMSEZPUBLISHLEGACY-2364525
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2005

CVE-2005-4851  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy to version 3.7.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication eZ publish 3.4.4 through 3.7 before 20050722 applies certain permissions on the node level, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the original permissions on embedded objects in XML fields and read these objects.

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