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High · 8.8 CVE-2021-22966 EUVD-2021-2360GHSA-j4mv-2rv7-v2j9

Improper Privilege Management in Concrete CMS

Published Nov 19, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by hackerone

Description

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— https://github.com/concrete5/concrete5 Fixed in version 9 and in version 8.5.7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist concrete5/core < 8.5.7 8.5.7 GHSA-j4mv-2rv7-v2j9

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