CVE-2023-25014: Broken Access Control in extension "femanager" (femanager)

Tue. 31st January, 2023

It has been discovered that the extension “femanager” (femanager) is susceptible to Broken Access Control.

• Release Date: January 31, 2023
• Component Type: Third party extension. This extension is not a part of the TYPO3 default installation.
• Component: “femanager” (femanager)
• Composer Package Name: in2code/femanager
• Vulnerability Type: Broken Access Control
• Affected Versions: 5.5.2 and below, 6.0.0 - 6.3.3, 7.0.0 - 7.0.1
• Severity: High
• Suggested CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
• References: Not assigned yet

Problem Description

A missing access check in the InvitationController allows an unauthenticated user with a valid invitation link to set the password of all frontend users. Another missing access check in the InvitationController allows an unauthenticated user to delete all frontend users.

Note, that the issue is only exploitable, if the invitation component of the extension is configured and used on the website.

Solution

Updated versions 5.5.3, 6.3.4 and 7.1.0 are available from the TYPO3 extension manager, packagist and at
https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/download/femanager/5.5.3/zip
https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/download/femanager/6.3.4/zip
https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/download/femanager/7.1.0/zip
Users of the extension are advised to update the extension as soon as possible.

Credits

Thanks to Stefan Busemann for providing updated versions of the extension.

General Advice

Follow the recommendations that are given in the TYPO3 Security Guide. Please subscribe to the typo3-announce mailing list.