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Drupal Simple Access Module Security Bypass

Secunia Advisory: SA29772  
Release Date: 2008-04-10
Last Update: 2008-04-15

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Drupal Simple Access Module 5.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1731 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in the Simple Access module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

Privacy information for a node can be removed due to an unspecified error, usually triggered by other modules like Node clone or Project issue tracking. This can be exploited to make private nodes public. No further information is currently available.

The security issue is reported in 5.x-1.2-2 and all prior versions.

Solution:
Update to version 5.x-1.3.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Derek Wright, Drupal Security Team

Changelog:
2008-04-15: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
DRUPAL-SA-2008-025:
http://drupal.org/node/244560



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