Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
6.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Impact A CMS user with "add" permission over a snippet model, but not "change" or "view" permission, could copy an existing snippet that they do not have access to, allowing them to view its contents.

Patches Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.9, 7.3.4, 7.4.3 and 8.0rc2.

Workarounds N/A

Acknowledgements Many thanks to tinyb0y for reporting this issue.

For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Visit Wagtail's support channels Email us at security@wagtail.org (view our security policy for more information).

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Severity
3.7
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Impact By passing specific HTTP headers to the document serve URL endpoint, an attacker was able to determine whether a document with a given ID matched a specified SHA1 hash, regardless of any permission restrictions on the document or knowing its filename. This could allow an attacker to determine whether a document with a specific known hash is present in the Wagtail document library.

This vulnerability does not expose the document's contents or any metadata beyond the already known SHA1 hash, and does not expose information about any documents for which the attacker does not know the SHA1 hash.

Patches Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.9, 7.3.4, 7.4.3 and 8.0rc2.

Workarounds Site owners who are unable to upgrade can strip If-Match and If-None-Match from anonymous requests to /documents/ at the reverse proxy, or use a custom document model without a filehash attribute.

Acknowledgements Many thanks to Anand Himanshu for reporting this issue.

For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Visit Wagtail's support channels Email us at security@wagtail.org (view our security policy for more information).

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