GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-jm9m-rqr3-wfmh Kirby has insufficient permission checks in the language settings
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-41964
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- getkirby/cms
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
- Reviewed
- 2024-08-29
Affected packages
• Packagist getkirby/cms: < 3.6.6.6 → fixed in 3.6.6.6
• Packagist getkirby/cms: >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.5.5 → fixed in 3.7.5.5
• Packagist getkirby/cms: >= 3.8.0, < 3.8.4.4 → fixed in 3.8.4.4
• Packagist getkirby/cms: >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.8.2 → fixed in 3.9.8.2
• Packagist getkirby/cms: >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.1.1 → fixed in 3.10.1.1
• Packagist getkirby/cms: >= 4.0.0, < 4.3.1 → fixed in 4.3.1
Description
TL;DR
This vulnerability affects all Kirby sites with enabled `languages` option that might have potential attackers in the group of authenticated Panel users.
If you have disabled the `languages` and/or `api` option and don't call any methods in your code that cause a write access to languages (language creation, update or deletion), your site is *not* affected.
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Introduction
Kirby allows to restrict the permissions of specific user roles. Users of that role can only perform permitted actions.
Permissions for creating and deleting languages have already existed and could be configured, but were not enforced by Kirby's frontend or backend code.
A permission for updating existing languages has not existed before the patched versions. So disabling the `languages.*` wildcard permission for a role could not have prohibited updates to existing language definitions.
Impact
The missing permission checks allowed attackers with Panel access to manipulate the language definitions.
The language definitions are at the core of multi-language content in Kirby. Unauthorized modifications with malicious intent can cause significant damage, for example:
• If the `languages` option was enabled but no language exists, creating the first language will switch Kirby to multi-language mode.
• Deleting an existing language will lead to content loss of all translated content in that language. Deleting the last language will switch Kirby to single-language mode.
• Updating a language allows to change the metadata including the language slug (used in page URLs) and language variables. It also allows to change the default language, which will cause Kirby to use the new default language's content as a fallback for non-existing translations.
Depending on the site code, the result of such actions can cause loss of site availability (e.g. error messages in the site frontend) or integrity (due to changed URLs or removed translations).
Patches
The problem has been patched in Kirby 3.6.6.6, Kirby 3.7.5.5, Kirby 3.8.4.4, Kirby 3.9.8.2, Kirby 3.10.1.1, and Kirby 4.3.1. Please update to one of these or a later version to fix the vulnerability.
In all of the mentioned releases, we have added checks for the `languages.create` and `languages.delete` permissions that ensure that users without those permissions cannot perform the respective actions. We have also added a new `languages.update` permission.
Credits
Thanks to Sebastian Eberlein of JUNO (@SebastianEberlein-JUNO) for reporting the identified issue.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-41964 Kirby is a CMS targeting designers and editors. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/security/advisories/GHSA-jm9m-rqr3-wfmh web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41964 advisory
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/1dbc9215c97a5c22dc7f34a4e3a64d19e1eac151 web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/38636655b054e820f66c3b717c55a9d60fe6400a web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/83fce501759782cf843b6f1d9293a7c7167e69af web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/ab95d172667c3cd529917c2bc94d3c7969706d23 web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/af9b0a58dea63effab85525ae217faa1f5ded423 web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/commit/e647a177c75636ef4824662b2ce00d8e5c3a8406 web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby package
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.10.1.1 web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.6.6.6 web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.7.5.5 web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.8.4.4 web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.9.8.2 web
- https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/4.3.1 web