CVE-2020-15098
Missing Required Cryptographic Step Leading to Sensitive Information Disclosure in TYPO3 CMS
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- GitHub_M
Description
In TYPO3 CMS greater than or equal to 9.0.0 and less than 9.5.20, and greater than or equal to 10.0.0 and less than 10.4.6, it has been discovered that an internal verification mechanism can be used to generate arbitrary checksums. This allows to inject arbitrary data having a valid cryptographic message authentication code (HMAC-SHA1) and can lead to various attack chains including potential privilege escalation, insecure deserialization & remote code execution. The overall severity of this vulnerability is high based on mentioned attack chains and the requirement of having a valid backend user session (authenticated). This has been patched in versions 9.5.20 and 10.4.6.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- CWE-325: Missing Required Cryptographic Step (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-325 and its CVEs
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs
- CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
- CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-502 and its CVEs
- CWE-327 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-327 and its CVEs
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagisttypo3/cmsGHSA-m5vr-3m74-jwxp (opens in a new tab)
- Packagisttypo3/cms-coreGHSA-m5vr-3m74-jwxp (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/TYPO3/TYPO3.CMS/security/advisories/GHSA-m5vr-3m74-jwxp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2016-013 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2020-008 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/TYPO3/TYPO3.CMS/commit/85d3e70dff35a99ef53f4b561114acfa9e5c47e1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m5vr-3m74-jwxp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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