Security Advisory SA37057 - Drupal Shibboleth Authentication Module Privilege Escalation Security Issue

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Secunia Advisory SA37057

Drupal Shibboleth Authentication Module Privilege Escalation Security Issue

Secunia Advisory

SA37057

Release Date

2009-10-16

Last Update

2010-01-05

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

Drupal Shibboleth Authentication Module 5.x

Drupal Shibboleth Authentication Module 6.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-4527 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in the Shibboleth authentication module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

An error exists in the handling of statically granted permissions for Shibboleth sessions. This can be exploited to perform certain actions with escalated privileges by logging-in using a browser that has not been closed by another user after logging-out.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 6.x-3.2 and 5.x-3.4.

Solution
Shibboleth authentication 6.x:
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Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Kristof Bajnok.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
SA-CONTRIB-2009-070:
http://drupal.org/node/604488

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