joomla/joomla-cms · Security
Joomla RCE Vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-9m72-pw47-292w
- CVE ID
- CVE-2018-17856
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.2 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.2 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. com_joomlaupdate allows the execution of arbitrary code. The default ACL config enabled the ability of Administrator-level users to access com_joomlaupdate and trigger code execution.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17856 ↗
- https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/752-20181002-core-inadequate-default-access-level-for-com-joomlaupdate.html ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210124211736/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105559 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211208125303/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041914 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9m72-pw47-292w ↗