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GHSA-5fvc-7894-ghp4medium6.1

Craft CMS has Twig Function Blocklist Bypass

Impact

Craft CMS implements a blocklist to prevent potentially dangerous PHP functions from being called via Twig non-Closure arrow functions.

Source excerpt · OSV

Affected packages

Start with the recorded fix for your release branch. Check your installed version and test compatibility before upgrading. Fixing this advisory does not rule out other vulnerabilities in the release.

craftcms/cms Packagist
Affected rangeRecorded fix
From 5.0.0-RC1 before 5.9.0-beta.1Ecosystem versions5.9.0-beta.1
From 4.0.0-RC1 before 4.17.0-beta.1Ecosystem versions4.17.0-beta.1

Version evidence: OSV · GHSA-5fvc-7894-ghp4

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Original source description

Craft CMS implements a blocklist to prevent potentially dangerous PHP functions from being called via Twig non-Closure arrow functions.

In order to be able to successfully execute this attack, you need to either have allowAdminChanges enabled on production, or a compromised admin account, or an account with access to the System Messages utility.

Several PHP functions are not included in the blocklist, which could allow malicious actors with the required permissions to execute various types of payloads, including RCEs, arbitrary file reads, SSRFs, and SSTIs.

Twig has already deprecated this behavior, and it will eventually be removed from Twig altogether.

https://github.com/twigphp/Twig/blob/946ddeafa3c9f4ce279d1f34051af041db0e16f2/src/Extension/CoreExtension.php#L2096

This has been resolved in Craft 4.17.0 and 5.9.0, which removes the blocklist and disables all non-Clousure arrow functions in Twig globally via the enableTwigSandbox config setting. That setting is enabled by default on all new Craft projects. Existing Craft projects will need to enable the config setting to take advantage of it.

Existing projects should update to the patched versions of 5.9.0 and 4.17.0 to mitigate the issue and enable the config setting.

Resources

https://github.com/craftcms/cms/pull/18208

References