Contao CMS up to 4.13.48/5.3.14/5.4.2 unrestricted upload

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Contao CMS up to 4.13.48/5.3.14/5.4.2. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-45398. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Contao CMS up to 4.13.48/5.3.14/5.4.2. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In affected versions a back end user with access to the file manager can upload malicious files and execute them on the server. Users are advised to update to Contao 4.13.49, 5.3.15 or 5.4.3. Users unable to update are advised to configure their web server so it does not execute PHP files and other scripts in the Contao file upload directory.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-45398 since 08/28/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1608.002.

Upgrading to version 4.13.49, 5.3.15 or 5.4.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Contao

Name

• CMS

Version

• 4.13.0
• 4.13.1
• 4.13.2
• 4.13.3
• 4.13.4
• 4.13.5
• 4.13.6
• 4.13.7
• 4.13.8
• 4.13.9
• 4.13.10
• 4.13.11
• 4.13.12
• 4.13.13
• 4.13.14
• 4.13.15
• 4.13.16
• 4.13.17
• 4.13.18
• 4.13.19
• 4.13.20
• 4.13.21
• 4.13.22
• 4.13.23
• 4.13.24
• 4.13.25
• 4.13.26
• 4.13.27
• 4.13.28
• 4.13.29
• 4.13.30
• 4.13.31
• 4.13.32
• 4.13.33
• 4.13.34
• 4.13.35
• 4.13.36
• 4.13.37
• 4.13.38
• 4.13.39
• 4.13.40
• 4.13.41
• 4.13.42
• 4.13.43
• 4.13.44
• 4.13.45
• 4.13.46
• 4.13.47
• 4.13.48
• 5.3.0
• 5.3.1
• 5.3.2
• 5.3.3
• 5.3.4
• 5.3.5
• 5.3.6
• 5.3.7
• 5.3.8
• 5.3.9
• 5.3.10
• 5.3.11
• 5.3.12
• 5.3.13
• 5.3.14
• 5.4.0
• 5.4.1
• 5.4.2

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