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Secunia Advisory SA32191

Drupal SIOC Module Security Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA32191
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Release Date 2008-10-09
Last Update 2009-03-02
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
SIOC 5.x (module for Drupal)
SIOC 6.x (module for Drupal)

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-6160 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in the SIOC (Semantically-Interconnected Online Communities) module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to improper access restriction. This can be exploited to display comments, hashed e-mail messages, usernames, and roles without valid user credentials.

The vulnerability is reported in all 5.x versions prior to 5.x-1.2 and all 6.x versions prior to 6.x-1.1.


Solution
Update to version 5.x-1.2 or 6.x-1.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
Stéphane Corlosquet and Peter Wolanin, Drupal security team

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
DRUPAL-SA-2008-062:
http://drupal.org/node/318749

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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