X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/72c3b81efb1079f8db070ac89e97e9b7bcedd61b..125461cab730871aef4f07e21ac8cf8c165808ee:/doc/security.mdwn diff --git a/doc/security.mdwn b/doc/security.mdwn index d5a0266cd..594b72126 100644 --- a/doc/security.mdwn +++ b/doc/security.mdwn @@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ the same standards as the rest of ikiwiki, but with that said, here are some security notes for them. * The [[plugins/img]] plugin assumes that imagemagick/perlmagick are secure - from malformed image attacks. Imagemagick has had security holes in the + from malformed image attacks for at least the formats listed in + `img_allowed_formats`. Imagemagick has had security holes in the past. To be able to exploit such a hole, a user would need to be able to upload images to the wiki. @@ -506,3 +507,22 @@ The hole was reported on March 24th, a fix was developed on March 27th, and the fixed version 3.20150329 was released on the 29th. A fix was backported to Debian jessie as version 3.20141016.2 and to Debian wheezy as version 3.20120629.2. An upgrade is recommended for sites using CGI and openid. + +## XSS via error messages + +CGI error messages did not escape HTML meta-characters, potentially +allowing an attacker to carry out cross-site scripting by directing a +user to a URL that would result in a crafted ikiwiki error message. This +was discovered on 4 May by the ikiwiki developers, and the fixed version +3.20160506 was released on 6 May. An upgrade is recommended for sites using +the CGI. ([[!cve CVE-2016-4561]], OVE-20160505-0012) + +## ImageMagick CVE-2016–3714 ("ImageTragick") + +ikiwiki 3.20160506 attempts to mitigate [[!cve CVE-2016-3714]] and any +future ImageMagick vulnerabilities that resemble it, by restricting the +image formats that the [[ikiwiki/directive/img]] directive is willing to +resize. An upgrade is recommended for sites where an untrusted user is +able to attach images. Upgrading ImageMagick to a version where +CVE-2016-3714 has been fixed is also recommended, but at the time of +writing no such version is available.