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wallabag contains Improper Authorization via export feature

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 1, 2023 in wallabag/wallabag • Updated Feb 24, 2023

Package

composer wallabag/wallabag (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.0-alpha.1, < 2.5.3

Patched versions

2.5.3

Description

Description

The export feature lets a user export a single entry or a set of entries in a given format (e.g. PDF, MOBI, TXT).

For example, https://yourinstance.wallabag.org/export/45.pdf will export the entry with id 45 in PDF format.

Since wallabag 2.0.0-alpha.1, this feature is vulnerable to an insecure direct object reference attack. A logged user can export any single entry without ownership validation.

This is due to a lack of access validation in the downloadEntryAction method.

You should immediately patch your instance to version 2.5.3 or higher if you have more than one user and/or having open registration.

Resolution

A user check is now done in the vulnerable method before sending the exported entry.

The Entry retrieval through a ParamConverter has also been replaced with a call to the EntryRepository in order to prevent any information disclosure through response discrepancy.

Workaround

If you are unable to update to the latest version or if you want to temporarily limit risk of exploitation, you may consider blocking requests to the endpoint /export/*.

E.g. with nginx:

    location /export {
        deny all;
    }

Credits

We would like to thank @bAuh0lz for reporting this issue through huntr.dev.

Reference: https://www.huntr.dev/bounties/3adef66f-fc86-4e6d-a540-2ffa59342ff0/

References

@j0k3r j0k3r published to wallabag/wallabag Feb 1, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 2, 2023
Reviewed Feb 2, 2023
Last updated Feb 24, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-0609

GHSA ID

GHSA-qwx8-mxxx-mg96

Source code

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