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Remote Denial of Service via Tasks endpoint

Moderate
steveyken published GHSA-p75c-5x3h-cxcg Oct 7, 2022

Package

bundler fat_free_crm (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 0.20.1

Patched versions

0.20.1

Description

Impact

An authenticated user can perform a remote Denial of Service attack against Fat Free CRM.

This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier: CVE-2022-39281

Affected versions: All
Not affected: None
Fixed versions: 0.20.1

All users running an affected release should either upgrade or apply the patch immediately.

Releases

Fixed versions: 0.20.1 and above

Patches

If you are unable to upgrade immediately, you should apply the following patch.

diff --git a/app/models/polymorphic/task.rb b/app/models/polymorphic/task.rb
index d3d5c32c..7cdb24d6 100644
--- a/app/models/polymorphic/task.rb
+++ b/app/models/polymorphic/task.rb
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ class Task < ActiveRecord::Base
   #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   def self.bucket_empty?(bucket, user, view = "pending")
     return false if bucket.blank? || !ALLOWED_VIEWS.include?(view)
+    return false unless Setting.task_bucket.map(&:to_s).include?(bucket.to_s)

     if view == "assigned"
       assigned_by(user).send(bucket).pending.count

Credits

Thanks to @p- for reporting this and working with us to responsibly disclose this vulnerability.

Further information

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Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

CVE ID

CVE-2022-39281

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits