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XWiki extension license information is public, exposing instance id and license holder details

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 21, 2024 in xwikisas/application-licensing • Updated Feb 21, 2024

Package

maven com.xwiki.licensing:application-licensing-licensor-ui (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 1.0, < 1.24.2

Patched versions

1.24.2

Description

Impact

The licensor application includes the document Licenses.Code.LicenseJSON that provides information for admins regarding active licenses. This document is public and thus exposes this information publicly. The information includes the instance's id as well as first and last name and email of the license owner. This is a leak of information that isn't supposed to be public. The instance id allows associating data on the active installs data with the concrete XWiki instance. Active installs assures that "there's no way to find who's having a given UUID" (referring to the instance id). Further, the information who the license owner is and information about the obtained licenses can be used for targeted phishing attacks. Also, while user information is normally public, email addresses might only be displayed obfuscated (depending on the configuration).

Patches

This has been fixed in Application Licensing 1.24.2, by xwikisas/application-licensing@d168fb8

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds besides upgrading.

References

Fixed by xwikisas/application-licensing@d168fb8

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 21, 2024
Reviewed Feb 21, 2024
Last updated Feb 21, 2024

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-26138

GHSA ID

GHSA-4hfp-m9gv-m753
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