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SCA: security update for concrete5/core (GHSA-j4mv-2rv7-v2j9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416128

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Privilege escalation from Editor to Admin using Groups in Concrete CMS versions 8.5.6 and below. If a
 group is granted "view" permissions on the bulkupdate page, then users in that group can escalate to being
 an administrator with a specially crafted curl. Fixed by adding a check for group permissions before
 allowing a group to be moved. Concrete CMS Security team CVSS scoring: 7.1
 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCredit for discovery: "Adrian Tiron from FORTBRIDGE (
 https://www.fortbridge.co.uk/ )"This fix is also in Concrete version 9.0.0 (CVE-2021-22966)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j4mv-2rv7-v2j9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416128

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22966

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22966

cwe: CWE-269