CVE-2024-35228 Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions in Wagtail

2024-05-3018:44:31

CWE-280

GitHub_M

github.com

cve-2024-35228

wagtail

django

improper handling

insufficient permissions

patched versions

model permissions

security vulnerability

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

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

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. Due to an improperly applied permission check in the wagtail.contrib.settings module, a user with access to the Wagtail admin and knowledge of the URL of the edit view for a settings model can access and update that setting, even when they have not been granted permission over the model. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin. Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 6.0.5 and 6.1.2. Wagtail releases prior to 6.0 are unaffected. Users are advised to upgrade. Site owners who are unable to upgrade to a patched version can avoid the vulnerability in ModelViewSet by registering the model as a snippet instead. No workaround is available for wagtail.contrib.settings.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "wagtail",
    "product": "wagtail",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": ">= 6.0.0, < 6.0.5",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": ">= 6.1.0, < 6.1.2",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]