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GHSA-6vc8-3xf2-qrxx CVE-2019-8232

Magento 2 Community Edition RCE Vulnerability

Medium Packagist
Severity
6.6 / 10
Medium · CVSS 3.1
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.85%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 58.23% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Fix
2.2.10
Upgrade magento/community-edition to this version or later

Description

In Magento prior to 1.9.4.3, Magento prior to 1.14.4.3, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.10, and Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.3 or 2.3.2-p1, an authenticated user with administrative privileges for the import feature can execute arbitrary code through a race condition that allows webserver configuration file modification.

Affected versions

Packagist

PackageVulnerableFixed in
magento/community-edition
>= 2.2.0, < 2.2.10
2.2.10
magento/community-edition
>= 2.3.0, < 2.3.2-p1
2.3.2-p1

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

magento/community-edition Packagist → 2.2.10

composer
composer require magento/community-edition:^2.2.10

Severity breakdown

CVSS 3.1 6.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Weakness

CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: In languages that support it, use synchronization primitives. Only wrap these around critical code to minimize the impact on performance.
  • Architecture and Design: Use thread-safe capabilities such as the data access abstraction in Spring.
  • Architecture and Design: Minimize the usage of shared resources in order to remove as much complexity as possible from the control flow and to reduce the likelihood of unexpected conditions occurring. Additionally, this will minimize the amount of synchronization necessary and may even help to reduce the likelihood of a denial of service where an attacker may be able to repeatedly trigger a critical section (CWE-400).
  • Implementation: When using multithreading and operating on shared variables, only use thread-safe functions.
  • Implementation: Use atomic operations on shared variables. Be wary of innocent-looking constructs such as "x++". This may appear atomic at the code layer, but it is actually non-atomic at the instruction layer, since it involves a read, followed by a computation, followed by a write.
  • Implementation: Use a mutex if available, but be sure to avoid related weaknesses such as CWE-412.
  • Implementation: Avoid double-checked locking (CWE-609) and other implementation errors that arise when trying to avoid the overhead of synchronization.
  • Implementation: Disable interrupts or signals over critical parts of the code, but also make sure that the code does not go into a large or infinite loop.
  • Implementation: Use the volatile type modifier for critical variables to avoid unexpected compiler optimization or reordering. This does not necessarily solve the synchronization problem, but it can help.
  • Architecture and Design, Operation: Run your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks [REF-76]. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.

References

Timeline

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  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
GHSA-wh92-6q6g-px7j
Magento Community Edition Improper Input Validation vulnerability
Critical Known exploited Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-m8cj-3v68-3cxj
Magento Open Source affected by an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') vulnerability
Critical Known exploited Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-f8fv-f786-9933
Magento improper input validation vulnerability
Critical Known exploited Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-qvwr-p3hj-j6jf
Magento vulnerable to privilege escalation due to incorrect authorization
Medium Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-pcrx-r49h-x2w5
Magento vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Medium Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-r355-75hw-r8jf
Magento allows incorrect authorization
Medium Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-2768-5wmv-cfff
Magento vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
High Also affects magento/community-edition
GHSA-69x9-xp2j-w8g8
Magento provides incorrect authorization through a security feature bypass
High Also affects magento/community-edition
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