me aliases - Moderately Critical - Access Bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2015-128

‘me aliases’ module provides shortcut paths to current user’s pages, eg user/me, blog/me, user/me/edit, tracker/me etc.

The view user argument handler for the ‘me’ module has an access bypass vulnerability where it does not check the supplied argument against the current user. This allows any user to access the content served by the view by substituting ‘me’ in the URL with a user id even when they don’t have permission to access the content.

These only affects Views which use the Views ‘me’ user argument handler.

CVE identifier(s) issued

• CVE-2015-5512

Versions affected

• me aliases 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.2
• me aliases 6.x-2.x versions prior to 6.x-2.10

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed me aliases module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

• If you use the ‘me aliases’ module for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to me 7.x-1.2
• If you use the ‘me aliases’ module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to me 6.x-2.10

Also see the me aliases project page.

Reported by

• akosipax

Fixed by

• nohup the module maintainer
• Stella Power of the Drupal Security Team

Coordinated by

• Stella Power of the Drupal Security Team