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Denial of Service in Page Error Handling

Moderate
ohader published GHSA-8c28-5mp7-v24h Dec 13, 2022

Package

composer typo3/cms-core (Composer)

Affected versions

9.0.0-9.5.37, 10.0.0-10.4.32, 11.0.0-11.5.19

Patched versions

9.5.38, 10.4.33, 11.5.20

Description

CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C (5.5)

Problem

Requesting invalid or non-existing resources via HTTP triggers the page error handler, which again could retrieve content to be shown as an error message from another page. This leads to a scenario in which the application is calling itself recursively - amplifying the impact of the initial attack until the limits of the web server are exceeded.

This vulnerability is very similar, but not identical, to the one described in TYPO3-CORE-SA-2021-005 (CVE-2021-21359).

Solution

Update to TYPO3 versions 9.5.38 ELTS, 10.4.33 or 11.5.20 that fix the problem described above.

Credits

Thanks to Daniel Schönfeld who reported this issue and to TYPO3 core & security team member Benni Mack who fixed the issue.

References

Severity

Moderate
5.9
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2022-23500