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Privilege escalation/RCE via the edit action

Critical
tmortagne published GHSA-g2qq-c5j9-5w5w Nov 7, 2023

Package

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 1.0

Patched versions

15.2-rc-1, 14.10.6

Description

Impact

It's possible for a user to execute any content with the right of an existing document's content author, provided the user have edit right on it.

To reproduce:

  • Log in as a user without programming or script right.
  • Open the URL /xwiki/bin/edit//?content=%7B%7Bgroovy%7D%7Dprintln%28%22Hello+from+Groovy%21%22%29%7B%7B%2Fgroovy%7D%7D&xpage=view, where is the URL of your XWiki installation and is the path to a document whose content author has programming right (or script right) and on which the current user has edit right.

The text "Hello from Groovy!" is displayed in the page content, showing that the Groovy macro has been executed, which should not be the case for a user without programming right.

Patches

This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.6 and 15.2RC1.

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds for it.

References

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Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2023-46243

Weaknesses