Chat Room – Moderately Critical – Access Bypass – SA-CONTRIB-2015-169

Description

Chat Room enables site owners to integrate chats into nodes by adding the chat room field to them. The module relies on a websocket connection to send chat messages to the client.

The module doesn’t sufficiently validate access before setting up the websocket. As a result, users may receive messages from chat rooms they don’t have access to via the websocket.

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • A CVE identifier will be requested, and added upon issuance, in accordance with Drupal Security Team processes.

Versions affected

  • Chat Room 7.x-2.x versions prior to 7.x-2.2.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Chat Room module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Chat Room project page.

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Fixed by

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Contact and More Information

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