GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-8692-g6g9-gm5p xwiki contains Exposed Dangerous Method or Function
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-26478
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-store-filesystem-oldcore
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-749
- Reviewed
- 2023-03-03
Affected packages
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-store-filesystem-oldcore: >= 14.3-rc-1, < 14.4.6 → fixed in 14.4.6
• Maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-store-filesystem-oldcore: >= 14.5, < 14.9-rc-1 → fixed in 14.9-rc-1
Description
Impact
`org.xwiki.store.script.TemporaryAttachmentsScriptService#uploadTemporaryAttachment` is returning an instance of `com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiAttachment`. This class is not supported to be exposed to users without the `programing` right.
`com.xpn.xwiki.api.Attachment` should be used instead and takes case of checking the user's rights before performing dangerous operations.
Patches
This has been patched in the version 14.9-rc-1 and 14.4.6.
Workarounds
There's no workaround for this issue.
References
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20180
For more information
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Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-26478 XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-749 Exposed Dangerous Method or Function weakness
References
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-8692-g6g9-gm5p web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26478 advisory
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/3c73c59e39b6436b1074d8834cf276916010014d web
- https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform package
- https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20180 web