CVE-2024-28235
Contao possible cookie sharing with external domains while checking protected pages for broken links
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Description
Contao is an open source content management system. Starting in version 4.9.0 and prior to versions 4.13.40 and 5.3.4, when checking for broken links on protected pages, Contao sends the cookie header to external urls as well, the passed options for the http client are used for all requests. Contao versions 4.13.40 and 5.3.4 have a patch for this issue. As a workaround, disable crawling protected pages.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/session-cookie-disclosure-in-the-crawler
- https://github.com/contao/contao/commit/73a2770e2d3535ec9f1b03d54be00e56ebb8ff16
- https://github.com/contao/contao/commit/79b7620d01ce8f46ce2b331455e0d95e5208de3d
- https://github.com/contao/contao/security/advisories/GHSA-9jh5-qf84-x6pr
References (5)
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CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- NONE
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