- Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2015-128
- Project: me aliases (third-party module)
- Version: 6.x, 7.x
- Date: 2015-June-24
- Security risk: 11/25 ( Moderately Critical) AC:Basic/A:User/CI:Some/II:None/E:Theoretical/TD:All
- Vulnerability: Access bypass
Description
‘me aliases’ module provides shortcut paths to current user’s pages, eg user/me, blog/me, user/me/edit, tracker/me etc.
The view user argument handler for the ‘me’ module has an access bypass vulnerability where it does not check the supplied argument against the current user. This allows any user to access the content served by the view by substituting ‘me’ in the URL with a user id even when they don’t have permission to access the content.
These only affects Views which use the Views ‘me’ user argument handler.
CVE identifier(s) issued
- A CVE identifier will be requested, and added upon issuance, in accordance with Drupal Security Team processes.
Versions affected
- me aliases 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.2
- me aliases 6.x-2.x versions prior to 6.x-2.10
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed me aliases module, there is nothing you need to do.
Solution
Install the latest version:
- If you use the ‘me aliases’ module for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to me 7.x-1.2
- If you use the ‘me aliases’ module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to me 6.x-2.10
Also see the me aliases project page.
Reported by
Fixed by
- nohup the module maintainer
- Stella Power of the Drupal Security Team
Coordinated by
- Stella Power of the Drupal Security Team
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