Drupal May Disclose a User's Password in Certain Cases
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1022496
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1022496
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CVE Reference: GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jul 2 2009
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Impact: Disclosure of authentication information
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 5.x prior to 5.19, 6.x prior to 6.13
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Drupal. A remote user may be able to obtain the target user's password.
When an anonymous user submits incorrect username or password information on a page that contains a sortable table, the submitted
information is included in links on the table. If the target user subsequently loads any of the links, the previously submitted
username and password information is included in the HTTP Referer header.
If the Drupal page cache is enabled, a remote user
may be able to obtain the username and password information from the page cache.
Sumit Datta reported this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user or remote site may be able to obtain the target user's password.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (5.19, 6.13).
Patches are also available for 5.18 and 6.12.
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://drupal.org/node/507572
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Vendor URL: drupal.org/node/507572 (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Access control error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 01:16:19 -0400
Subject: Drupal
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http://drupal.org/node/507572
SA-CORE-2009-007 - Drupal core - Multiple vulnerabilities
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