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Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 19:30:05 CDT

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TITLE:
Drupal SIOC Module Security Bypass Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32191

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32191/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
SIOC 5.x (module for Drupal)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20089/
SIOC 6.x (module for Drupal)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20090/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the SIOC
(Semantically-Interconnected Online Communities) module for Drupal,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions and disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to improper access restriction. This
can be exploited to display comments, hashed e-mail messages,
usernames, and roles without valid user credentials.

The vulnerability is reported in all 5.x versions prior to 5.x-1.2
and all 6.x versions prior to 6.x-1.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.x-1.2 or 6.x-1.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Stéphane Corlosquet and Peter Wolanin, Drupal security team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DRUPAL-SA-2008-062:
http://drupal.org/node/318749

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