By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2013-068
  • Project: Entity API (third-party module)
  • Version: 7.x
  • Date: 2013-August-14
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Access bypass

Description

The Entity API module extends the entity API of Drupal core in order to provide a unified way to deal with entities and their properties.

The module doesn't sufficiently enforce node access restrictions when checking for a user's access to view a comment associated with a particular node. The vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that it only applies to a user's access to view a comment in a situation where access should be restricted with entity access.

The Entity API also does not properly restrict access when displaying selected entities using the Views field or area plugins, allowing users to view entities that they do not have access to. The vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that entities are only improperly exposed when a View has been configured to display them in a field, header or footer of a View.

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • CVE-2013-4273

Versions affected

  • Entity API 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.2

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

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Entity API project page.

Reported by

The comment access bypass was reported by:

The Views header/footer access bypass was reported by:

Fixed by

Coordinated by

Contact and More Information

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