ASA-2019-00417 – TYPO3: Security Misconfiguration in Frontend Session Handling


Allele Security Alert

ASA-2019-00417

Identifier(s)

ASA-2019-00417, TYPO3-CORE-SA-2019-018

Title

Security Misconfiguration in Frontend Session Handling

Vendor(s)

TYPO3 Association

Product(s)

TYPO3 CMS

Affected version(s)

TYPO3 CMS versions 8.5.0 to 8.7.26
TYPO3 CMS versions 9.0.0 to 9.5.7

Fixed version(s)

TYPO3 CMS version 8.7.27
TYPO3 CMS version 9.5.8

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

It has been discovered session data of properly authenticated and logged in frontend users is kept and transformed into an anonymous user session during the logout process. This way the next user using the same client application gains access to previous session data.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

Christian Ebert

Reference(s)

TYPO3 9.5.8 and 8.7.27 security releases published
https://typo3.org/article/typo3-958-and-8727-security-releases-published/

TYPO3-CORE-SA-2019-018: Security Misconfiguration in Frontend Session Handling
https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2019-018/

[TYPO3-announce] Announcing TYPO3 v9.5.8 and v8.7.27 security releases
http://lists.typo3.org/pipermail/typo3-announce/2019/000447.html

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Last modified: July 11, 2019

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