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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1qbTltLXJxcjMtd2ZtaM4AA_Bw

Kirby has insufficient permission checks in the language settings

TL;DR

This vulnerability affects all Kirby sites with enabled languages option that might have potential attackers in the group of authenticated Panel users.

If you have disabled the languages and/or api option and don't call any methods in your code that cause a write access to languages (language creation, update or deletion), your site is not affected.

Introduction

Kirby allows to restrict the permissions of specific user roles. Users of that role can only perform permitted actions.

Permissions for creating and deleting languages have already existed and could be configured, but were not enforced by Kirby's frontend or backend code.

A permission for updating existing languages has not existed before the patched versions. So disabling the languages.* wildcard permission for a role could not have prohibited updates to existing language definitions.

Impact

The missing permission checks allowed attackers with Panel access to manipulate the language definitions.

The language definitions are at the core of multi-language content in Kirby. Unauthorized modifications with malicious intent can cause significant damage, for example:

Depending on the site code, the result of such actions can cause loss of site availability (e.g. error messages in the site frontend) or integrity (due to changed URLs or removed translations).

Patches

The problem has been patched in Kirby 3.6.6.6, Kirby 3.7.5.5, Kirby 3.8.4.4, Kirby 3.9.8.2, Kirby 3.10.1.1, and Kirby 4.3.1. Please update to one of these or a later version to fix the vulnerability.

In all of the mentioned releases, we have added checks for the languages.create and languages.delete permissions that ensure that users without those permissions cannot perform the respective actions. We have also added a new languages.update permission.

Credits

Thanks to Sebastian Eberlein of JUNO (@SebastianEberlein-JUNO) for reporting the identified issue.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jm9m-rqr3-wfmh
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1qbTltLXJxcjMtd2ZtaM4AA_Bw
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: 9 days ago
Updated: 9 days ago


CVSS Score: 8.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-jm9m-rqr3-wfmh, CVE-2024-41964
References: Repository: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby
Blast Radius: 20.9

Affected Packages

packagist:getkirby/cms
Dependent packages: 223
Dependent repositories: 378
Downloads: 343,474 total
Affected Version Ranges: >= 4.0.0, <= 4.3.0, >= 3.10.0, <= 3.10.1, >= 3.9.0, <= 3.9.8.1, >= 3.8.0, <= 3.8.4.3, >= 3.7.0, <= 3.7.5.4, <= 3.6.6.5
Fixed in: 4.3.1, 3.10.1.1, 3.9.8.2, 3.8.4.4, 3.7.5.5, 3.6.6.6
All affected versions: 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.3.5, 3.3.6, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 3.4.5, 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5, 3.5.6, 3.5.7, 3.5.8, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.5, 3.6.6, 3.7.0, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3, 3.7.4, 3.7.5, 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.8.3, 3.8.4, 3.9.0, 3.9.1, 3.9.2, 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 3.9.8, 3.10.0, 3.10.1, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.2.0, 4.3.0, 4.3.1
All unaffected versions: