GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-qcqv-38jg-2r43 Pageflow vulnerable to insecure direct object reference in membership update endpoint
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- pageflow
- Severity
- High
- Reviewed
- 2022-09-15
Affected packages
• RubyGems pageflow: < 14.5.2 → fixed in 14.5.2
• RubyGems pageflow: >= 15.0.0, < 15.7.1 → fixed in 15.7.1
Description
Impact
Pageflow has a membership edit feature which allows users to edit the roles of user memberships associated with an account that they have the `manager` role to (including their own). While the `Entity` dropdown select field is greyed out in the UI, an attacker can use tools which allow sending arbitrary HTTP request to craft a request to the `/admin/users/{user_id}/memberships/{membership_id}` endpoint containing an additional `membership[entity_id]` parameter. This parameter is honored when the membership is updated, allowing an attacker to update the membership object associated with their own account (with `manager` role) to be associated with a different attacker-chosen account instead. Since `account_id`s are enumerable, an attacker can compromise all accounts present on the platform.
Mitigation
Upgrade to version 15.7.1 or 14.5.2 of the `pageflow` gem.
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Credits
Positive Security