- Component Type: TYPO3 CMS
- Subcomponent: Dashboard (ext:dashboard)
- Release Date: November 17, 2020
- Vulnerability Type: XML External Entity
- Affected Versions: 10.4.0-10.4.9
- Severity: Low
- Suggested CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:R
- References: CVE-2020-26229, CWE-611
Problem Description
It has been discovered that RSS widgets are susceptible to XML external entity processing.
This vulnerability is reasonable, but is theoretical - it was not possible to actually reproduce the vulnerability with current PHP versions of supported and maintained system distributions.
At least with libxml2 version 2.9, the processing of XML external entities is disabled per default - and cannot be exploited. Besides that, a valid backend user account is needed.
Solution
Update to TYPO3 version 10.4.10 that fixes the problem described.
Credits
Thanks to Victoria Lee who reported this issue and to TYPO3 security team member Oliver Hader who fixed the issue.
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