Upload whitelisted files to any directory in OctoberCMS

Impact

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to upload jpg, jpeg, bmp, png, webp, gif, ico, css, js, woff, woff2, svg, ttf, eot, json, md, less, sass, scss, xml files to any directory of an October CMS server. The vulnerability is only exploitable by an authenticated backend user with the cms.manage_assets permission.

Patches

Issue has been patched in Build 466 (v1.0.466).

Workarounds

Apply https://github.com/octobercms/october/commit/6711dae8ef70caf0e94cec434498012a2ccd86b8 to your installation manually if unable to upgrade to Build 466.

References

Reported by Sivanesh Ashok

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Threat assessment:

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