DRUPAL CORE - ADMINISTER CONTENT TYPES PERMISSION

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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                    ESB-2009.0140 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux]
             DRUPAL CORE - ADMINISTER CONTENT TYPES PERMISSION
                             12 February 2009

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:              Drupal core 5.x and 6.x
Publisher:            Drupal
Operating System:     UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
                      Windows
Impact:               Reduced Security
Access:               Existing Account

Original Bulletin:    http://drupal.org/node/372836

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  * Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CORE-2009-002

  * Project: Drupal core

  * Versions: 5.x and 6.x

  * Date: 2009-February-11

  * Security risk: None

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This is a public service announcement regarding the "administer content types"
permission. The rise of the Content Construction Kit (CCK) and a legion of
powerful CCK field modules have considerably extended the abilities of a user
with this permission, with much of a site's behaviour now being configurable via
the content types administration pages.

The permission "administer content types" is therefore comparable in scope to
the "administer site configuration" permission. Only grant this permission to
trusted site administrators.

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Only grant trusted site administrators the "administer content types"
permission.

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The security team for Drupal can be reached at security at drupal.org or via
the form at [ http://drupal.org/contact ].

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