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>> Drupal Menu Security Bypass and Data Manipulation Vulnerability

Title : Drupal Menu Security Bypass and Data Manipulation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1185
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1729
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-10


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A vulnerability has been identified in Drupal, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and manipulate certain data. This issue is caused by errors in the menu system that does not properly validate user permissions, which could be exploited by attackers to edit profile pages and content types, or gain knowledge of sensitive information via the tracker and blog pages.

Affected Products

Drupal versions 6.x

Solution

Upgrade to Drupal version 6.2 :
http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.2.tar.gz

Or apply patch for Drupal version 6.1 :
http://drupal.org/files/sa-2008-026/SA-2008-026-6.1c.patch

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1185
http://drupal.org/node/244637

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Peter Wolanin and Greg Knaddison (Drupal Security Team).

ChangeLog

2008-04-10 : Initial release

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