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Users with SCRIPT right can access the application server instance manager and create arbitrary Java objects through $xcontext.request and $context.request binding

High
tmortagne published GHSA-5hv6-mh8q-q9v8 Oct 15, 2020

Package

maven org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (Maven)

Affected versions

< 11.10.6, < 12.5

Patched versions

11.10.6, 12.5

Description

Impact

Any user with SCRIPT right (EDIT right before XWiki 7.4) can gain access to the application server Servlet context which contains tools allowing to instantiate arbitrary Java objects and invoke methods that may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patches

It has been patched in both version XWiki 12.5 and XWiki 11.10.6.

Workarounds

The only workaround is to give SCRIPT right only to trusted users.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-17423

It's been reported by the GitHub Security Lab under https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-17141.

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Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2020-15252

Weaknesses

No CWEs