ASA-2018-00085 – TYPO3: Denial of Service in Frontend Record Registration


Allele Security Alert

ASA-2018-00085

Identifier(s)

ASA-2018-00085, TYPO3-CORE-SA-2018-012

Title

Denial of Service in Frontend Record Registration

Vendor(s)

TYPO3 Association

Product(s)

TYPO3

Affected version(s)

TYPO3 7.0.0-7.6.31 and 8.0.0-8.7.20

Fixed version(s)

TYPO3 versions 7.6.32 or 8.7.21

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

TYPO3’s built-in record registration functionality (aka “basic shopping cart”) using recs URL parameters is vulnerable to denial of service. Failing to properly ensure that anonymous user sessions are valid, attackers can use this vulnerability in order to create an arbitrary amount of individual session-data records in the database.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

Mads Lønne Jensen and Benni Mack (TYPO3 core team)

Reference(s)

TYPO3 9.5.2, 8.7.21 and 7.6.32 security releases published
https://typo3.org/article/typo3-952-8721-and-7632-security-releases-published/

TYPO3-CORE-SA-2018-012: Denial of Service in Frontend Record Registration
https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2018-012/

Deprecation: #70316 – Frontend basket with recs
https://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/extensions/core/Changelog/8.6/Deprecation-70316-FrontendBasketWithRecs.html

[TYPO3-announce] Announcing TYPO3 v9.5.2, v8.7.21 and v7.6.32 security releases
http://lists.typo3.org/pipermail/typo3-announce/2018/000435.html

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Last modified: February 1, 2019

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