Vigil@nce - Drupal Masquerade: privilege escalation
March 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use Drupal Masquerade, in order to escalate his
privileges.
– Impacted products: Drupal Modules
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 06/03/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Masquerade module can be installed on Drupal, to allow a user
to masquerade as another one.
However, an attacker allowed to use Masquerade can masquerade as
any user.
An attacker can therefore use Drupal Masquerade, in order to
escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Drupal-Masquerade-privilege-escalation-14369