Ecosyste.ms: Advisories

Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS0zNWo1LW0yOXIteGZxNc4AA2sH

XWiki Rendering's footnote macro vulnerable to privilege escalation via the footnote macro

Impact

The footnote macro executed its content in a potentially different context than the one in which it was defined. In particular in combination with the include macro, this allows privilege escalation from a simple user account in XWiki to programming rights and thus remote code execution, impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the whole XWiki installation.

To reproduce, perform the following steps:

1. Edit your user profile with the object editor and add an object of type DocumentSheetBinding with value XWiki.ClassSheet
2. Edit your user profile with the wiki editor and add the syntax {{footnote}}{{groovy}}println("Hello " + "from groovy!"){{/groovy}}{{/footnote}}

When the text "Hello from groovy!" is displayed at the bottom of the document, the installation is vulnerable. Instead, an error should be displayed.

Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.6 and 15.1-rc-1.

Workarounds

There is no workaround apart from upgrading to a fixed version of the footnote macro.

References

• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XRENDERING-688
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/commit/5f558b8fac8b716d19999225f38cb8ed0814116e

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS0zNWo1LW0yOXIteGZxNc4AA2sH
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: 7 months ago
Updated: 6 months ago

CVSS Score: 8.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5, CVE-2023-37912
References:

• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/security/advisories/GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-37912
• https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/commit/5f558b8fac8b716d19999225f38cb8ed0814116e
• https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XRENDERING-688
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-35j5-m29r-xfq5

Repository: https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering
Blast Radius: 14.9

Affected Packages