CVE-2023-40033

Summary

CVECVE-2023-40033
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-16 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-25 18:10:00 UTC
DescriptionFlarum is an open source forum software. Flarum is affected by a vulnerability that allows an attacker to conduct a Blind Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack or disclose any file on the server, even with a basic user account on any Flarum forum. By uploading a file containing a URL and spoofing the MIME type, an attacker can manipulate the application to execute unintended actions. The vulnerability is due to the behavior of the `intervention/image` package, which attempts to interpret the supplied file contents as a URL, which then fetches its contents. This allows an attacker to exploit the vulnerability to perform SSRF attacks, disclose local file contents, or conduct a blind oracle attack. This has been patched in Flarum version 1.8.0. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable PHP's `allow_url_fopen` which will prevent the fetching of external files via URLs as a temporary workaround for the SSRF aspect of the vulnerability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-918

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Flarum Flarum All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
LFI and Blind SSRF via Avatar upload · Advisory · flarum/framework · GitHub MISC github.com
fix: improve avatar upload functionality · flarum/framework@d1059c1 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 994868 PHP (Composer) Security Update for flarum/core (GHSA-67c6-q4j4-hccg)
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