By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2014-066
  • Project: Node Access Keys (third-party module)
  • Version: 7.x
  • Date: 2014-July-02
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Access bypass

Description

Node Access Keys helps to grant users temporary view permissions to selected content types on a per user role basis.

It was found that unpublished nodes of content types that that did not have an access key were visible to all. Also, If an unpublished node of a content type that was protected by an access key was visited with the access key then access was granted.

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • A CVE identifier will be requested, and added upon issuance, in accordance with Drupal Security Team processes.

Versions affected

  • Node Access Keys 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.2.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Node Access Keys module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Node Access Keys project page.

Reported by

  • This issue was disclosed publicly.

Fixed by

Coordinated by

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