Category Archives: Advisories

Advisories

Drupal core – Moderately critical – Cross Site Scripting – SA-CORE-2021-011

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Project: 
Drupal core
Date: 
2021-November-17
Security risk: 
Moderately critical 13∕25 AC:Basic/A:User/CI:Some/II:Some/E:Theoretical/TD:Default
Vulnerability: 
Cross Site Scripting
Description: 

The Drupal project uses the CKEditor library for WYSIWYG editing. CKEditor has released a security update that impacts Drupal, along with a hotfix for that update.

Vulnerabilities are possible if Drupal is configured to allow use of the CKEditor library for WYSIWYG editing. An attacker that can create or edit content (even without access to CKEditor themselves) may be able to exploit one or more Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities to target users with access to the WYSIWYG CKEditor, including site admins with privileged access.

For more information, see CKEditor’s security advisories:

CVE-2021-41165: HTML comments vulnerability allowing to execute JavaScript code
CVE-2021-41164: Advanced Content Filter (ACF) vulnerability allowing to execute JavaScript code using malformed HTML

This advisory is not covered by Drupal Steward.

Solution: 

Install the latest version:

If you are using Drupal 9.2, update to Drupal 9.2.9.
If you are using Drupal 9.1, update to Drupal 9.1.14.
If you are using Drupal 8.9, update to Drupal 8.9.20.

Versions of Drupal prior to 9.1.x are end-of-life and do not receive security coverage.

Note that Drupal 8 has reached its end of life so this is the final security release provided for Drupal 8.

Drupal 7 core does not include the CKEditor module and therefore is not affected.

Reported By: 
Jacek Bogdański coordinated on the release with Drupal project.
See the CKEditor announcements above for the original reporters of the vulnerabilities.
Fixed By: 
xjm of the Drupal Security Team
Wim Leers
Greg Knaddison of the Drupal Security Team
Lauri Eskola
Ted Bowman

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Advisories

WordPress 5.8.2 Security and Maintenance Release

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WordPress 5.8.2 is now available!

This security and maintenance release features 2 bug fixes in addition to 1 security fix. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 5.2 have also been updated.

WordPress 5.8.2 is a small focus security and maintenance release. The next major release will be version 5.9.

You can download WordPress 5.8.2 by downloading from WordPress.org, or visit your Dashboard → Updates and click Update Now. If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process.

For more information, browse the full list of changes on Trac, or check out the version 5.8.2 HelpHub documentation page.

Thanks and props!

The 5.8.2 release was led by Jonathan Desrosiers and Evan Mullins.

In addition to the release squad members mentioned above, thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.8.2 happen:

Ari Stathopoulos, Bradley Taylor, davidwebca, Evan Mullins, Greg Ziółkowski, Jonathan Desrosiers, Juliette Reinders Folmer, Mukesh Panchal, Sergey Biryukov, shimon246, and Yui.

Props @circlecube and @pbiron for peer review.

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Advisories

[R1] Stand-alone Security Patch Available for Tenable.sc versions 5.16.0 to 5.19.1: Patch 202110.1

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Tenable.sc leverages third-party software to help provide underlying functionality. One of the third-party components (Apache) was found to contain vulnerabilities, and updated versions have been made available by the providers.

Out of caution, and in line with best practice, Tenable opted to upgrade the bundled Apache components to address the potential impact of these issues. Tenable.sc Patch 202110.1 updates Apache to version 2.4.51 to address the identified vulnerabilities.

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[R2] Stand-alone Security Patch Available for Tenable.sc versions 5.16.0 to 5.19.1: Patch 202109.1

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Tenable.sc leverages third-party software to help provide underlying functionality. One of the third-party components (OpenSSL) was found to contain vulnerabilities, and updated versions have been made available by the providers.

Out of caution, and in line with best practice, Tenable opted to upgrade the bundled OpenSSL components to address the potential impact of these issues. Tenable.sc patch SC-202109.1 updates OpenSSL to version 1.1.1l to address the identified vulnerabilities.

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Advisories

Drupal core – Moderately critical – Access Bypass – SA-CORE-2021-010

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Project: 
Drupal core
Date: 
2021-September-15
Security risk: 
Moderately critical 12∕25 AC:Basic/A:None/CI:Some/II:None/E:Theoretical/TD:Default
Vulnerability: 
Access Bypass
CVE IDs: 
CVE-2020-13677
Description: 

Under some circumstances, the Drupal core JSON:API module does not properly restrict access to certain content, which may result in unintended access bypass.

Sites that do not have the JSON:API module enabled are not affected.

This advisory is not covered by Drupal Steward.

Solution: 

Install the latest version:

If you are using Drupal 9.2, update to Drupal 9.2.6.
If you are using Drupal 9.1, update to Drupal 9.1.13.
If you are using Drupal 8.9, update to Drupal 8.9.19.

Versions of Drupal 8 prior to 8.9.x and versions of Drupal 9 prior to 9.1.x are end-of-life and do not receive security coverage.

Drupal 7 core does not include the JSON:API module and therefore is not affected.

Reported By: 
Brad Jones
Fixed By: 
Brad Jones
Jess of the Drupal Security Team
Björn Brala
Gabe Sullice
Mateu Aguiló Bosch

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Drupal core – Moderately critical – Access bypass – SA-CORE-2021-009

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Project: 
Drupal core
Date: 
2021-September-15
Security risk: 
Moderately critical 10∕25 AC:Basic/A:User/CI:Some/II:None/E:Theoretical/TD:Default
Vulnerability: 
Access bypass
CVE IDs: 
CVE-2020-13676
Description: 

The QuickEdit module does not properly check access to fields in some circumstances, which can lead to unintended disclosure of field data.

Sites are only affected if the QuickEdit module (which comes with the Standard profile) is installed.

This advisory is not covered by Drupal Steward.

Solution: 

Install the latest version:

If you are using Drupal 9.2, update to Drupal 9.2.6.
If you are using Drupal 9.1, update to Drupal 9.1.13.
If you are using Drupal 8.9, update to Drupal 8.9.19.

Versions of Drupal 8 prior to 8.9.x and versions of Drupal 9 prior to 9.1.x are end-of-life and do not receive security coverage.

Drupal 7 core does not include the QuickEdit module and therefore is not affected.

Uninstalling the QuickEdit module will also mitigate the vulnerability. Site owners may wish to consider this option as the QuickEdit module will be removed from core in Drupal 10.

Reported By: 
Greg Watson
Fixed By: 
Greg Watson
Wim Leers
Jess of the Drupal Security Team
Alex Bronstein of the Drupal Security Team
Lee Rowlands of the Drupal Security Team
Joseph Zhao
Vijay Mani
Adam G-H
Drew Webber of the Drupal Security Team

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