CVE-2021-41114 Information

Description

TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system released under the GNU GPL. It has been discovered that TYPO3 CMS is susceptible to host spoofing due to improper validation of the HTTP Host header. TYPO3 uses the HTTP Host header for example to generate absolute URLs during the frontend rendering process. Since the host header itself is provided by the client it can be forged to any value even in a name-based virtual hosts environment. This vulnerability is the same as described in TYPO3-CORE-SA-2014-001 (CVE-2014-3941). A regression introduced during TYPO3 v11 development led to this situation. The already existing setting $GLOBALS[‘TYPO3_CONF_VARS’][‘SYS’][’trustedHostsPattern’] (used as an effective mitigation strategy in previous TYPO3 versions) was not evaluated anymore and reintroduced the vulnerability.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Reference

https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/security/advisories/GHSA-m2jh-fxw4-gphm https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/commit/5cbff85506cebe343e5ae59228977547cf8e3cf4 https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2021-015

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.3