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CVE-2021-22966: Improper Privilege Management

November 23, 2021

Privilege escalation from Editor to Admin using Groups in Concrete CMS versions 8.5.6 and below. If a group is granted “view” permissions on the bulkupdate page, then users in that group can escalate to being an administrator with a specially crafted curl. Fixed by adding a check for group permissions before allowing a group to be moved. Concrete CMS Security team CVSS scoring: 7.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCredit for discovery: “Adrian Tiron from FORTBRIDGE ( https://www.fortbridge.co.uk/ )“This fix is also in Concrete version 9.0.0

References

  • documentation.concretecms.org/developers/introduction/version-history/857-release-notes
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-j4mv-2rv7-v2j9
  • hackerone.com/reports/1362747
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22966

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Affected versions

All versions before 8.5.7

Fixed versions

  • 8.5.7

Solution

Upgrade to version 8.5.7 or above.

Impact 8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

Source file

packagist/concrete5/core/CVE-2021-22966.yml

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