GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-33gp-gmg3-hfpq XWiki Platform vulnerable to document deletion and overwrite from edit
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-37898
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
- Reviewed
- 2024-07-31
Affected packages
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore: >= 13.10.4, < 14.10.21 → fixed in 14.10.21
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore: >= 14.2, < 14.10.21 → fixed in 14.10.21
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore: >= 15.0, < 15.5.5 → fixed in 15.5.5
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore: >= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.10.6 → fixed in 15.10.6
Description
Impact
When a user has edit but not view right on a page in XWiki, that user can delete the page and replace it by a page with new content without having delete right. The previous version of the page is moved into the recycle bin and can be restored from there by an admin. As the user is recorded as deleter, the user would in theory also be able to view the deleted content, but this is not directly possible as rights of the previous version are transferred to the new page and thus the user still doesn't have view right on the page. From all we examined, it therefore doesn't seem to be possible to exploit this to gain any rights.
To reproduce, just replace `view` by `edit` in the URL of a page that you cannot view but edit and save. This should send the page to the recycle bin and replace it by an empty one if the XWiki installation is vulnerable. After the fix, an error is displayed when saving.
Patches
This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5 and 15.10.6 by cancelling save operations by users when a new document shall be saved despite the document's existing already.
Workarounds
We're not aware of any workarounds.
References
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21553
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/c5efc1e519e710afdf3c5f40c0fcc300ad77149f
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-37898 XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-33gp-gmg3-hfpq web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37898 advisory
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/0bc27d6ec63c8a505ff950e2d1792cb4f773c22e web
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/56f5d8aab7371d5ba891168f73890806551322c5 web
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/c5efc1e519e710afdf3c5f40c0fcc300ad77149f web
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/e4968fe268e5644ffd9bfa4ef6257d2796446009 web
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform package
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21553 web