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Secret data exfiltration via symfony parameters

Moderate
alanhartless published GHSA-4hjq-422q-4vpx Mar 22, 2021

Package

mautic/core (php)

Affected versions

< 3.3.2

Patched versions

3.3.2

Description

Impact

Symfony parameters (which is what Mautic transforms configuration parameters into) can be used within other Symfony parameters by design. However, this also means that an admin who is normally not privy to certain parameters, such as database credentials, could expose them by leveraging any of the free text fields in Mautic’s configuration that are used in publicly facing parts of the application.

For example,

  1. Go to Configuration page -> Landing Page Settings -> Analytics script and enter this: <script> console.log("db password is: %mautic.db_password%"); </script>
  2. Visit any landing page and open the JS dev console. You will see the following message with real instance db password: db password is: <real password>

Risk rating: ModerateCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Patches

Upgrade to 3.3.2

Workarounds

No

References

No

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Severity

Moderate
5.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

CVE ID

CVE-2021-27908

Weaknesses

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