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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2010.0418.2
A cross site scripting vulnerability have been identified in
a Drupal third-party module
24 May 2010
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: CCK TableField (Drupal third-party module)
Publisher: Drupal
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Cross-site Scripting -- Remote with User Interaction
Increased Privileges -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2010-1998
Original Bulletin:
http://drupal.org/node/790998
Revision History: May 24 2010: added CVE
May 6 2010: Initial Release
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* Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2010-039
* Project: CCK TableField (third-party module)
* Version: 6.x
* Date: 2010-May-05
* Security risk: Moderately Critical
* Exploitable from: Remote
* Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting
- -------- DESCRIPTION
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The CCK TableField module provides a generic method to attach tabular data to
a node. CCK TableField does not sanitize table headers before output,
allowing anyone with permissions to create or edit a node containing one or
more TableField fields to insert arbitrary HTML and script code. Such a cross
site scripting [1] (XSS) attack may also lead to a malicious user gaining
full administrative access.
- -------- VERSIONS AFFECTED
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* CCK TableField module for Drupal 6.x version prior to 6.x-1.2.
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed CCK TableField
module for Drupal 6.x, there is nothing you need to do.
- -------- SOLUTION
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Install the latest version or disable the module.
* If you use CCK TableField 6.x-1.1 or older, upgrade to CCK TableField
6.x-1.2 [2]
See also the CCK TableField [3] project page.
- -------- REPORTED BY
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* mr.baileys [4] of the Drupal Security Team [5].
- -------- FIXED BY
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* Kevin Hankens [6], the module maintainer.
- -------- CONTACT
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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 [7].
Read more about the Security Team and Security Advisories at
http://drupal.org/security.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
[2] http://drupal.org/node/790364
[3] http://drupal.org/project/tablefield
[4] http://drupal.org/user/383424
[5] http://drupal.org/security-team
[6] http://drupal.org/user/78090
[7] http://drupal.org/contact
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