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Creation of integrations for any project from anonymous users

Moderate
stsewd published GHSA-45hq-g76r-46wv Nov 14, 2023

Package

Read the Docs (Python)

Affected versions

<=10.10.0

Patched versions

10.11.0

Description

Impact

This vulnerability could potentially allow a malicious user to create integrations that don't require a payload validation for any project. This integration could have been used to trigger builds to existing versions, create external versions, and update the identifier of the project's default version under some circumstances.

We have migrated some of the webhooks automatically, and contacted users that have webhooks without a secret set that we weren't able to migrate automatically, so they can generate a secret for those webhooks. New webhooks, even manually created webhooks, will always be created with a shared secret set. The actions a webhook without a secret can do are now limited to trigger builds to existing versions, and support for them will be removed on January 31, 2024. You can read more about this at https://blog.readthedocs.com/security-update-on-incoming-webhooks/.

This issue was discovered by a member of our team, and we have seen no signs that this vulnerability was exploited in the wild.
Special thanks to @daquinteroflex who brought this issue to our attention.

Custom installations

We don't officially support custom installations of Read the Docs, but If you are using a custom installation, we recommend you to upgrade.

Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in our 10.11.0 release.

References

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [email protected] (PGP).

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

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