🛡️ CVE-2022-36090 — xwiki

🟠 CVSS 8.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-285 NVD
8.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

XWiki Platform Improper Authorization check for inactive users

Impact

Some resources are missing a check for inactive (not yet activated or disabled) users in XWiki, including the REST service: so a disabled user can enable themselves using a REST call. On the same way some resources handler created by extensions are not protected by default: so an inactive users could perform actions for such extensions.

This issue exists since at least version 1.1 of XWiki for instance configured with the email activation required for new users. Now it's more critical for newer versions (>= 11.3RC1) since we provided the capability to disable user without deleting them, and we encouraged using that feature.

Patches

This issue has been patched in XWiki 14.3RC1 and XWiki 13.10.5.

Workarounds

There is no workaround for this other than upgrading XWiki.

References

  • https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-19559

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How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-36090 is classified as CWE-285: Improper Authorization. A request is carried out without confirming that the caller is permitted to perform it on that specific resource.

Affected software

CVE-2022-36090 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (from 14.0 up to 14.3-rc-1)
  • xwiki (from 1.1 up to 13.10.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 September 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
jira.xwiki.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-285
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-09-16
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore 14.0 14.3-rc-1
xwiki 1.1 13.10.5

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