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HIGH7.1

GHSA-67c6-q4j4-hccg

Flarum vulnerable to LFI and Blind SSRF via Avatar upload

Quick fix

GHSA-67c6-q4j4-hccg — flarum/core: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

composer require flarum/core:^1.8.0

Details

## Impact The Flarum forum software is affected by a vulnerability that allows an attacker to conduct a Blind SSRF attack or disclose any file on the server, even with a basic user account on any Flarum forum. By uploading a file containing a URL and spoofing the MIME type, an attacker can manipulate the application to execute unintended actions. The vulnerability is due to the behavior of the `intervention/image` package, which attempts to interpret the supplied file contents as a URL, which then fetches its contents. This allows an attacker to exploit the vulnerability to perform SSRF attacks, disclose local file contents, or conduct a blind oracle attack.

### Patches This has been patched in Flarum **v1.8**.

## Workarounds As a temporary workaround for the SSRF aspect of the vulnerability, one can disable PHP's `allow_url_fopen` which will prevent the fetching of external files via URLs.

### Credits Adam Kues - [Assetnote](https://assetnote.io/)

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Affected packages

Packagist/flarum/core
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.8.0
Fixcomposer require flarum/core:^1.8.0
Packagist/flarum/framework
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.8.0
Fixcomposer require flarum/framework:^1.8.0

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