CVE-2023-36465 CRITICAL

CVE-2023-36465: Decidim has broken access control in templates

Vendor Decidim
Product decidim
Weakness CWE-284
Published October 6, 2023
Last update September 19, 2024

CVSS base score

9.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework, written in Ruby on Rails, originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. The `templates` module doesn't enforce the correct permissions, allowing any logged-in user to access to this functionality in the administration panel. An attacker could use this vulnerability to change, create or delete templates of surveys. This issue has been patched in version 0.26.8 and 0.27.4.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 6, 2023 CVE published
September 19, 2024 Record updated