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Comala Document Approval Security Advisory 2020-12-14
- Robert Alexander Marshall
This advisory discloses a security vulnerability found and fixed in Comala Document Approval. We recommend upgrading Comala Document Approval to the latest supported version.
Affected Versions
The vulnerability affects Comala Document Approval 1.4.0 → 1.7.11
The 1.8.0 release contains a fix for the issue mentioned below.
Versions prior to 1.4.0 are not affected.
XSS Vulnerabilities
Severity
Comalatech rates the severity of these issues as Medium according to the published Atlassian Security Levels. We have ranked the vulnerability as medium because:
- A registered user with edit permissions over pages or blog posts in the application could do the following:
- Session riding
- Stealing information and cookies
- Creating a phishing page within the domain
This is an independent assessment and you should evaluate its applicability to your own IT environment.
Description
We have fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability introduced in Comala Document Approval 1.4.0. The vulnerability could allow a user with page level workflow usage permissions to use another user's session.
Risk Mitigation
Sites running 1.4.0-1.7.11 are recommend to upgrade to Comala Document Approval 1.8.0
If upgrading immediately is not possible please disable the application until you can upgrade it.