GHSA-j584-j2vj-3f93CriticalCVSS 9.0

XWiki Platform allows remote code execution from user account

Published
June 20, 2024
Last Modified
February 5, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-37899 →

📋 Description

Impact

When an admin disables a user account, the user's profile is executed with the admin's rights. This allows a user to place malicious code in the user profile before getting an admin to disable the user account.

To reproduce, as a user without script nor programming rights, edit the about section of your user profile and add {{groovy}}services.logging.getLogger("attacker").error("Hello from Groovy!"){{/groovy}}. As an admin, go to the user profile and click the "Disable this account" button. Then, reload the page. If the logs show attacker - Hello from Groovy! then the instance is vulnerable.

Patches

This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.6 and 16.0.0.

Workarounds

We're not aware of any workaround except upgrading.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-21611
  • https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/f89c8f47fad6e5cc7e68c69a7e0acde07f5eed5a

🎯 Affected products5

  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:>= 13.4.7, < 13.5
  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:>= 13.10.3, < 14.10.21
  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:>= 15.0-rc-1, < 15.5.5
  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:>= 15.6-rc-1, < 15.10.6
  • maven/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore:>= 16.0.0-rc-1, < 16.0.0

🔗 References (9)