CVE-2024-25119

Information Disclosure of Encryption Key in TYPO3 Install Tool

State: Published
Severity: 4.9 Medium
Published: Feb 13, 2024
Updated: Aug 1, 2024
Reserved: Feb 5, 2024

Description

TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system released under the GNU GPL. The plaintext value of `$GLOBALS['SYS']['encryptionKey']` was displayed in the editing forms of the TYPO3 Install Tool user interface. This allowed attackers to utilize the value to generate cryptographic hashes used for verifying the authenticity of HTTP request parameters. Exploiting this vulnerability requires an administrator-level backend user account with system maintainer permissions. Users are advised to update to TYPO3 versions 8.7.57 ELTS, 9.5.46 ELTS, 10.4.43 ELTS, 11.5.35 LTS, 12.4.11 LTS, 13.0.1 that fix the problem described. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

Product	Versions
typo3TYPO3	>= 13.0.0, < 13.0.1Affected >= 12.0.0, < 12.4.11Affected >= 11.0.0, < 11.5.35Affected >= 10.0.0, < 10.4.43Affected >= 9.0.0, < 9.5.46Affected >= 8.0.0, < 8.7.57Affected

References

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