CVE-2020-26253

Summary

CVECVE-2020-26253
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-08 02:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-08 18:19:00 UTC
DescriptionKirby is a CMS. In Kirby CMS (getkirby/cms) before version 3.3.6, and Kirby Panel before version 2.5.14 there is a vulnerability in which the admin panel may be accessed if hosted on a .dev domain. In order to protect new installations on public servers that don't have an admin account for the Panel yet, we block account registration there by default. This is a security feature, which we implemented years ago in Kirby 2. It helps to avoid that you forget registering your first admin account on a public server. In this case – without our security block – someone else might theoretically be able to find your site, find out it's running on Kirby, find the Panel and then register the account first. It's an unlikely situation, but it's still a certain risk. To be able to register the first Panel account on a public server, you have to enforce the installer via a config setting. This helps to push all users to the best practice of registering your first Panel account on your local machine and upload it together with the rest of the site. This installation block implementation in Kirby versions before 3.3.6 still assumed that .dev domains are local domains, which is no longer true. In the meantime, those domains became publicly available. This means that our installation block is no longer working as expected if you use a .dev domain for your Kirby site. Additionally the local installation check may also fail if your site is behind a reverse proxy. You are only affected if you use a .dev domain or your site is behind a reverse proxy and you have not yet registered your first Panel account on the public server and someone finds your site and tries to login at `yourdomain.dev/panel` before you register your first account. You are not affected if you have already created one or multiple Panel accounts (no matter if on a .dev domain or behind a reverse proxy). The problem has been patched in Kirby 3.3.6. Please upgrade to this or a later version to fix the vulnerability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-346

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Getkirby Kirby All All All All
Application Getkirby Kirby All All All All
Application Getkirby Panel All All All All
Application Getkirby Panel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release 3.3.6 · getkirby/kirby · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Registration block: .dev domains and some reverse proxy setups were treated as local · Advisory · getkirby/kirby · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
getkirby/panel - Packagist MISC packagist.org Product, Third Party Advisory
Better check for local environments · getkirby-v2/panel@7f9ac18 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
getkirby/cms - Packagist MISC packagist.org Product, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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