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By Drupal Security Team on
- Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2013-091
- Project: Groups, Communities and Co (GCC) (third-party module)
- Version: 7.x
- Date: 2013-November-13
- Security risk: Moderately critical
- Exploitable from: Remote
- Vulnerability: Access bypass
Description
This module enables you to manage groups and assign content and users to groups.
The module doesn't sufficiently check permissions to some of the configuration pages allowing unprivileged users to access the roles and permissions pages of the GCC module.
CVE identifier(s) issued
- CVE-2013-4598
Versions affected
- GCC 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.1.
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Groups, Communities and Co (GCC) module, there is nothing you need to do.
Solution
Install the latest version:
- If you use the GCC module for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to GCC 7.x-1.1.
Also see the Groups, Communities and Co (GCC) project page.
Reported by
Fixed by
- Edouard Fajnzilberg the module maintainer
Coordinated by
- Greg Knaddison of the Drupal Security Team
Contact and More Information
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