Craft CMS up to 3.9.5/4.4.15 privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Craft CMS up to 3.9.5/4.4.15. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-21622. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Craft CMS up to 3.9.5/4.4.15 (Content Management System) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Craft is a content management system. This is a potential moderate impact, low complexity privilege escalation vulnerability in Craft starting in 3.x prior to 3.9.6 and 4.x prior to 4.4.16 with certain user permissions setups. This has been fixed in Craft 4.4.16 and Craft 3.9.6. Users should ensure they are running at least those versions.

The weakness was disclosed 01/03/2024 as GHSA-j5g9-j7r4-6qvx. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-21622 since 12/29/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.9.6 or 4.5.11 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 76caf9af07d9964be0fd362772223be6a5f5b6aa is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Craft

Name

• CMS

Version

• 3.9.0
• 3.9.1
• 3.9.2
• 3.9.3
• 3.9.4
• 3.9.5
• 4.4.0
• 4.4.1
• 4.4.2
• 4.4.3
• 4.4.4
• 4.4.5
• 4.4.6
• 4.4.7
• 4.4.8
• 4.4.9
• 4.4.10
• 4.4.11
• 4.4.12
• 4.4.13
• 4.4.14
• 4.4.15

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• free

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