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CVE-2024-46978

This vulnerability is present in XWiki since 13.2-rc-1.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.52%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.52%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible for any user knowing the ID of a notification filter preference of another user, to enable/disable it or even delete it. The impact is that the target user might start loosing notifications on some pages because of this. This vulnerability is present in XWiki since 13.2-rc-1. This vulnerability has been patched in XWiki 14.10.21, 15.5.5, 15.10.1, 16.0-rc-1. The patch consists in checking properly the rights of the user before performing any action on the filters. Users are advised to upgrade. It's possible to fix manually the vulnerability by editing the document `XWiki.Notifications.Code.NotificationPreferenceService` to apply the changes performed in commit e8acc9d8e6af7dfbfe70716ded431642ae4a6dd4.

CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS: 0.52% probability · 43th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-648
Affected: xwiki/xwiki
Source: security-advisories@github.com

References

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/e8acc9d8e6af7dfbfe70716ded431642ae4a6dd4Patch
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-r95w-889q-x2gxVendor Advisory
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20337Exploit, Vendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.