Affects: Odoo 14.0 and earlier (Community and Enterprise Editions) CVE ID: CVE-2019-11784 Component: Discuss
Improper access control in mail module (notifications) in Odoo Community
14.0 and earlier and Odoo Enterprise 14.0 and earlier, allows remote
authenticated users to obtain access to arbitrary messages in conversations
they were not a party to.
I. Background
The Discuss application provides generic productivity components to other Odoo
Apps, including a system allowing users to create private or public discussion
channels. This system allows to two users to chat together.
II. Problem Description
A missing access control allowed unauthorized users to grant themselves read
access to messages in conversations they were not originally invited to.
A malicious external user who has been granted Portal access could
send a specially crafted request to grant themselves read access to
abitrary messages in the database, allowing them to read private
discussions.
Odoo S.A. is not aware of any use of this vulnerability in the wild.
IV. Workaround
There is no known workaround, applying the patches is strongly recommended.
Odoo Cloud servers have been patched as soon as the correction was available.
To apply the patch, change into the main directory of your Odoo
installation (the one containing "openerp" and "addons" directories),
then execute the patch command, typically:
patch -p0 -f < /path/to/the_patch_file.patch
This command assumes your installation layout corresponds to
the latest source code layout of the Odoo project on GitHub.
If your installation differs, please extract the various patch
hunks from the files and apply them in the appropriate locations.
VI. Correction details
The following list contains the revisions after which the vulnerability
is corrected:
Security Advisory - CVE-2019-11784
Affects: Odoo 14.0 and earlier (Community and Enterprise Editions)
CVE ID: CVE-2019-11784
Component: Discuss
Improper access control in mail module (notifications) in Odoo Community
14.0 and earlier and Odoo Enterprise 14.0 and earlier, allows remote
authenticated users to obtain access to arbitrary messages in conversations
they were not a party to.
I. Background
The Discuss application provides generic productivity components to other Odoo
Apps, including a system allowing users to create private or public discussion
channels. This system allows to two users to chat together.
II. Problem Description
A missing access control allowed unauthorized users to grant themselves read
access to messages in conversations they were not originally invited to.
III. Impact
Attack Vector: Network exploitable
Authentication: User account required
CVSS3 Score: Medium :: 6.5
CVSS3 Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
A malicious external user who has been granted Portal access could
send a specially crafted request to grant themselves read access to
abitrary messages in the database, allowing them to read private
discussions.
Odoo S.A. is not aware of any use of this vulnerability in the wild.
IV. Workaround
There is no known workaround, applying the patches is strongly recommended.
Odoo Cloud servers have been patched as soon as the correction was available.
V. Solution
Apply the patches corresponding to your Odoo installation, or upgrade
to the latest revision, either via GitHub or by downloading the
latest version from https://www.odoo.com/page/download
or http://nightly.odoo.com
To apply the patch, change into the main directory of your Odoo
installation (the one containing "openerp" and "addons" directories),
then execute the patch command, typically:
This command assumes your installation layout corresponds to
the latest source code layout of the Odoo project on GitHub.
If your installation differs, please extract the various patch
hunks from the files and apply them in the appropriate locations.
VI. Correction details
The following list contains the revisions after which the vulnerability
is corrected:
12.0 and 11.0.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: