Open source bug poses threat to sites running multiple CMSes

Peter Reutemann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
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'Websites running the Drupal, Joomla, or Typo3 content-management
systems are vulnerable to attacks that could possibly execute
malicious code until administrators install just-released patches,
developers and security researchers warned.

The vulnerability resides in the PharStreamWrapper, a PHP component
developed and open-sourced by CMS maker Typo3. Indexed as
CVE-2019-11831, the flaw stems from a path-traversal bug that allows
hackers to swap a site's legitimate phar archive with a malicious one.
A phar archive is used to distribute a complete PHP application or
library in a single file, in much the way a Java archive file bundles
many Java files into a single file.'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/open-source-bug-poses-threat-to-sites-running-multiple-cmses/

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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