Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue and a vulnerability have been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain data and bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
Drupal Security Issue and Security Bypass Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47796
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-02-02
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DESCRIPTION:
A security issue and a vulnerability have been reported in Drupal,
which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain data
and bypass certain security restrictions.
1) The security issue is caused due to the OpenID module not properly
verifying the signature of Attribute Exchange (AX) information, which
can be exploited to manipulate AX information.
This security issue is reported in versions prior to 6.23 and
versions prior to 7.11.
2) An error in the File module when using certain field access
modules can be exploited to download private files which would
otherwise be restricted.
This vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 7.11.
SOLUTION:
Update to the latest version.
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Rui Wang, Shuo Chen, and Xiao Feng Wang.
2) The vendor credits David Rothstein, Drupal Security Team, and
Sascha Grossenbacher.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SA-CORE-2012-001:
http://drupal.org/node/1425084
OpenID:
http://openid.net/2011/05/05/attribute-exchange-security-alert/
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