In TYPO3 CMS greater than or equal to 9.0.0 and less than 9.5.20, and greater than or equal to 10.0.0 and less than 10.4.6, it has been discovered that an internal verification mechanism can be used to generate arbitrary checksums. This allows to inject arbitrary data having a valid cryptographic message authentication code (HMAC-SHA1) and can lead to various attack chains including potential privilege escalation, insecure deserialization & remote code execution. The overall severity of this vulnerability is high based on mentioned attack chains and the requirement of having a valid backend user session (authenticated). This has been patched in versions 9.5.20 and 10.4.6.
CVE-2020-15098
This high-severity CVE scores 8.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 2.4%, top 15% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 8.8(medium)
- EPSS
- 80.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 29, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (8)
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/TYPO3/TYPO3.CMS/commit/85d3e70dff35a99ef53f4b561114acfa9e5c47e1
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/TYPO3/TYPO3.CMS/security/advisories/GHSA-m5vr-3m74-jwxp
- security-advisories@githubhttps://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2016-013
- security-advisories@githubhttps://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2020-008
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/TYPO3/TYPO3.CMS/commit/85d3e70dff35a99ef53f4b561114acfa9e5c47e1
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/TYPO3/TYPO3.CMS/security/advisories/GHSA-m5vr-3m74-jwxp
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2016-013
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2020-008
Affected Packages
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Packagist(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| typo3/cms | v9.0.0 ... v9.5.9 (29 versions) | 9.5.20 | — |
| typo3/cms-core | v10.0.0 ... v10.4.5 (12 versions) | 10.4.6 | — |
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