From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 16:24:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Drupal Attach File Security Bypass Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32198

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32198/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Drupal 6.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/17839/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited
by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to improper access restriction in the
core upload module. This can be exploited to attach arbitrary files to
content, without valid credentials.

Successful exploitation requires that the core upload module is
enabled.

The vulnerability is reported in all 6.x versions prior to 6.5.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.5.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Damien Tournoud, Drupal security team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DRUPAL-SA-2008-060:
http://drupal.org/node/318706

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