Drupal up to 7.15 OpenID access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Drupal up to 7.15. This affects an unknown part of the component OpenID Module. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2012-4554. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Drupal up to 7.15 (Content Management System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component OpenID Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

The OpenID module in Drupal 7.x before 7.16 allows remote OpenID servers to read arbitrary files via a crafted DOCTYPE declaration in an XRDS file.

The weakness was published 11/11/2012 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at drupalcode.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-4554 since 08/21/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 62678 (Drupal 7.x < 7.16 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 12797 (Drupal Core Arbitrary PHP Code Execution and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (SA-CORE-2012-003)).

Upgrading to version 7.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 16457.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (62678), SecurityFocus (BID 56103†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-42669†). Similar entry is available at VDB-62899. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Highly functional

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Nessus ID: 62678
Nessus Name: Drupal 7.x < 7.16 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 72617
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: drupal7
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MetaSploit ID: drupal_openid_xxe.rb
MetaSploit Name: Drupal OpenID External Entity Injection
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Drupal 7.0
Patch: drupalcode.org
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Timelineinfo

08/21/2012 🔍
10/17/2012 +57 days 🔍
11/11/2012 +25 days 🔍
11/11/2012 +0 days 🔍
12/22/2013 +406 days 🔍
03/24/2015 +457 days 🔍
12/19/2021 +2462 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: drupal.org

Advisory: drupalcode.org
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2012-4554 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-4554
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-62900
SecurityFocus: 56103
Vulnerability Center: 42669 - Drupal 7.0 - 7.15 Remote Files Read Vulnerability in OpenID Servers, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 12:22
Updated: 12/19/2021 19:57
Changes: 03/24/2015 12:22 (70), 05/18/2017 08:34 (4), 12/19/2021 19:50 (3), 12/19/2021 19:57 (1)
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Cache ID: 216:DF7:103

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