By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2013-069
  • Project: Password policy (third-party module)
  • Version: 6.x, 7.x
  • Date: 2013-August-14
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

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

When viewing and editing a password policy, the module doesn't sufficiently filter the form text field input and display for the "Password Expiration Warning" field.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission "Administer policies" to create and edit password policies.

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • CVE-2013-4274

Versions affected

  • Password policy 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.5.
  • Password policy 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.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:

Also see the Password policy project page.

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Fixed by

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Contact and More Information

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