Description

ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system. Versions 4.28.0 and prior contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the getRestQuery method of the @apostrophecms/piece-type module, where the method checks whether a MongoDB projection has already been set before applying the admin-configured publicApiProjection. An unauthenticated attacker can supply a project query parameter in the REST API request, which is processed by applyBuildersSafely before the permission check, pre-populating the projection state and causing the publicApiProjection to be skipped entirely. This allows disclosure of any field on publicly queryable documents that the administrator explicitly restricted from the public API, such as internal notes, draft content, or metadata. Exploitation is trivial, requiring only appending query parameters to a public URL with no authentication. This issue has been fixed in version 4.29.0.

Weaknesses 2

Affected Products 1

References 3

• github.com https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/00d472804bb622df36a761b6f2cf2b33b2d4ce80
  Patch
• github.com https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/6c2b548dec2e3f7a82e8e16736603f4cd17525aa
  Patch
• github.com https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/security/advisories/GHSA-xhq9-58fw-859p
  ExploitMitigationVendor Advisory

Remediation

• github.com https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/00d472804bb622df36a761b6f2cf2b33b2d4ce80
  Patch
• github.com https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/6c2b548dec2e3f7a82e8e16736603f4cd17525aa
  Patch