National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2315

Overview

admin/Auth in OpenKM 5.1.7 and other versions before 5.1.8-2 does not properly enforce privileges for changing user roles, which allows remote authenticated users to assign administrator privileges to arbitrary users via the userEdit action.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: openkm-userpermissions-security-bypass(72112)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72112

External Source: BID

Name: 51250

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51250

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120504 Re: CVE-request: OpenKM 5.1.7 Privilege Escalation / OS Command Execution (XSRF based)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/04/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120504 Re: CVE-request: OpenKM 5.1.7 Privilege Escalation / OS Command Execution (XSRF based)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/04/13

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120427 Re: CVE-request: OpenKM 5.1.7 Privilege Escalation / OS Command Execution (XSRF based)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/27/6

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120323 Re: CVE-request: OpenKM 5.1.7 Privilege Escalation / OS Command Execution (XSRF based)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/8

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120323 CVE-request: OpenKM 5.1.7 Privilege Escalation / OS Command Execution (XSRF based)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/23/6

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 47424

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/47424

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 78105

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/78105

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20120104 Re: OpenKM 5.1.7 Privilege Escalation

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0021.html

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20120103 OpenKM 5.1.7 Privilege Escalation

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0007.html