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GHSA-68jx-f42c-7599

TYPO3 CMS - Broken Access Control in Backend and Install Tool

Quick fix

GHSA-68jx-f42c-7599 — typo3/cms-backend: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

composer require typo3/cms-backend:^13.4.34

Details

### Problem The referrer enforcement introduced with [TYPO3-CORE-SA-2020-006](https://news.typo3.com/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2020-006) ([CVE-2020-11069](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11069)) became ineffective in TYPO3 v13.0, where TYPO3 CMS started serving the backend and Admin Tool applications from the site's main entry script instead of the dedicated typo3/ directory.

Whether a request originated from the backend or Install Tool itself was determined by comparing the referrer against the directory of the entry script, which since then is the site root. As a consequence, requests originating from any script running on one of the TYPO3 instance's own domains, such as a frontend page, were accepted by backend routes and Install Tool endpoints.

Attackers able to execute JavaScript on one of those domains, for instance by exploiting a cross-site scripting vulnerability, could invoke these endpoints via Fetch/XHR with the privileges of an authenticated victim's user session.

### Solution Update to TYPO3 versions 13.4.34 LTS, 14.3.6 LTS that fix the problem described.

### Credits Thanks to Hổ Cao Từ for reporting this issue, and to TYPO3 core & security team member Benjamin Franzke for fixing it.

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Affected packages

Packagist/typo3/cms-backend
Introduced in: 13.0.0Fixed in: 13.4.34
Fixcomposer require typo3/cms-backend:^13.4.34
Packagist/typo3/cms-core
Introduced in: 14.0.0Fixed in: 14.3.6
Fixcomposer require typo3/cms-core:^14.3.6

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