• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-007
  • Project: Password policy (third-party module)
  • Version: 6.x
  • Date: 2012-January-11
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting, Cross Site Request Forgery

Description

This module enables you to specify a certain level of password complexity (aka. "password hardening") for user passwords on a system by defining a policy.

Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVE: CVE-2012-1633

Unblocking a user does not require sufficient confirmation by administrative users and can be exploited with a specially crafted URL.

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

CVE: CVE-2012-1632

The module doesn't sufficiently sanitize the name of password policies. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission "administer policies".

This issue also affects the 7.x branch which is only in beta release. Users of non-stable releases are encouraged to upgrade frequently as those releases are not covered by the Drupal Security Team policy.

Versions affected

  • Password Policy 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.4.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Password policy module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

Clear the site's cache:
visit Administer > Site Configuration > Performance and click "Clear cached data."

See also the Password policy project page.

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Fixed by

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Contact and More Information

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