CVE-2021-22966

Privilege escalation from Editor to Admin using Groups in Concrete CMS versions 8.5.6 and below

published November 19, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
61.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Privilege escalation from Editor to Admin using Groups in Concrete CMS versions 8.5.6 and below. If a group is granted "view" permissions on the bulkupdate page, then users in that group can escalate to being an administrator with a specially crafted curl. Fixed by adding a check for group permissions before allowing a group to be moved. Concrete CMS Security team CVSS scoring: 7.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCredit for discovery: "Adrian Tiron from FORTBRIDGE ( https://www.fortbridge.co.uk/ )"This fix is also in Concrete version 9.0.0

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00981 · 61.9th percentile
Published
2021-11-19T18:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 NOV 18:09Z
    Privilege escalation from Editor to Admin using Groups in Concrete CMS versions 8.5.6 and below
    cvelistv5