Monster Menus - Access Bypass - Moderately Critical - SA-CONTRIB-2015-163

Monster Menus is a hierarchical menu tree, which provides highly scalable, granular permissions for all pages within a site.

The module includes an option to remove nodes from view (add them to a “recycle bin”) rather than deleting them outright. When a node has been put into a bin using an affected version of the module, it remains visible via a seldom-used URL pattern to the users to whom it had been visible previously, when it was outside of the recycle bin.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the facts that:

1. Sites which do not use the recycle bin feature are not vulnerable.
2. The exposed node is no more accessible than it had been before being placed into the recycle bin. If the node could not be read by a particular user while it was on the regular page, it would still be unreadable by that user when in the recycle bin.

CVE identifier(s) issued

• CVE-2015-8095

Versions affected

• Monster Menus versions 7.x-1.21 through 7.x-1.23.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Monster Menus module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

• If you use the Monster Menus module for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to Monster Menus 7.x-1.24.

Also see the Monster Menus project page.

Reported by

• Dan Wilga

Fixed by

• Dan Wilga the module maintainer

Coordinated by

• Greg Knaddison of the Drupal Security Team