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[SA33550] Drupal Content Translation Module Security Bypass Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 14:24:04 CST


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TITLE:
Drupal Content Translation Module Security Bypass Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33550

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33550/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Content Translation module
for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass
certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error, which can be
exploited to bypass normal viewing access restrictions and e.g. view
the content of unpublished nodes without requiring any additional
permissions to do so.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires the "translate
content" permission.

This vulnerability is reported in Drupal 6.x.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.9.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Wolfgang Ziegler.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SA-CORE-2009-001:
http://drupal.org/node/358957

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