ghsa-8959-rfxh-r4j4
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-01-08 16:39
Modified
2024-01-09 16:12
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
XWiki vulnerable to Denial of Service attack through attachments
Details

Impact

A user able to attach a file to a page can post a malformed TAR file by manipulating file modification times headers, which when parsed by Tika, could cause a denial of service issue via CPU consumption.

Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.18, 15.5.3 and 15.8 RC1.

Workarounds

The workaround is to download commons-compress 1.24 and replace the one located in XWiki WEB-INF/lib/ folder.

References

https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in Jira XWiki.org * Email us at Security Mailing List

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "14.10",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "14.10.18",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "15.0-rc-1",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "15.5.3",
                  },
               ],
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            },
         ],
      },
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-distribution-war",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "15.6-rc-1",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "15.8-rc-1",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2024-21651",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-400",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2024-01-08T16:39:47Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2024-01-09T00:15:44Z",
      severity: "HIGH",
   },
   details: "### Impact\n\nA user able to attach a file to a page can post a malformed TAR file by manipulating file modification times headers, which when parsed by Tika, could cause a denial of service issue via CPU consumption. \n\n### Patches\nThis vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.18, 15.5.3 and 15.8 RC1.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nThe workaround is to download [commons-compress 1.24](https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.24.0/commons-compress-1.24.0.jar) and replace the one located in XWiki `WEB-INF/lib/` folder.\n\n### References\n\nhttps://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796\n\n### For more information\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Open an issue in [Jira XWiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/)\n* Email us at [Security Mailing List](mailto:security@xwiki.org)",
   id: "GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4",
   modified: "2024-01-09T16:12:43Z",
   published: "2024-01-08T16:39:47Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-8959-rfxh-r4j4",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21651",
      },
      {
         type: "PACKAGE",
         url: "https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-2796",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.24.0/commons-compress-1.24.0.jar",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
   summary: "XWiki vulnerable to Denial of Service attack through attachments",
}


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