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[20161204] - Misc. Security Hardening

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS

Description

Joomla! 3.6.5 includes additional security hardening mechanisms prepared by the JSST, thanks in part to issue reports from Fotis Evangelou and Nicholas Dionysopoulos, which restricts a user's ability to make potentially damaging configuration changes. This includes restricting the ability to set the "New User Registration Group" and "Guest User Group" to a group with Super User permissions and restricting the ability for a lesser privileged user to make user group assignment changes to users in a Super User group.

Additionally, we have modified the behavior of JUser::authorise() to only return a boolean value. Previously, this method could return either a boolean value or null because the underlying call to JAccess::check() can also return a null value; neither JUser::authorise() or JAccess::check() documented this though. We have determined that based on how the API is used that JUser::authorise() should only return a boolean value. If a developer requires the previous behavior of a null return value (which indicates an "implicit" denied state versus "explicit" signified by boolean false), they should use JAccess::check() instead. The documentation for JAccess::check() has been updated to indicate the null return value as well.

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

[20161203] - Core - Information Disclosure

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.0.0 through 3.6.4
  • Exploit type: Information Disclosure
  • Reported Date: 2016-April-15
  • Fixed Date: 2016-December-06
  • CVE Number: CVE-2016-9837

Description

Inadequate ACL checks in the Beez3 com_content article layout override enables a user to view restricted content.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.0.0 through 3.6.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.6.5

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Christiaan Klatte and Brian Teeman

[20161202] - Core - Shell Upload

  • Project: Joomla!
  • SubProject: CMS
  • Severity: Low
  • Versions: 3.0.0 through 3.6.4
  • Exploit type: Shell Upload
  • Reported Date: 2016-October-26
  • Fixed Date: 2016-December-06
  • CVE Number: CVE-2016-9836

Description

Inadequate filesystem checks allowed files with alternative PHP file extensions to be uploaded.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 3.0.0 through 3.6.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.6.5

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

Reported By: Xiphos Research Ltd.
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