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News > security bulletin no 45

Edit Level Users have Admin rights to modules

Published: Jan 19, 2011

Version: 1.0

Maximum Severity Rating: Critical

Background

DotNetNuke supports a system of granular permissions which allows administrators the ability to designate capabilities such as edit, view, administrate to pages and modules.

Issue Summary

A logical error was introduced which meant that a user who had "edit" access, also was able to access module settings. Once module settings were accessed, the user could grant themselves additional granular permissions.

Mitigating factors

This only affects sites where users are granted "edit" permissions i.e. sites where single users administrate all the content are not affected.

Affected DotNetNuke versions

  • 5.6.0

Non-Affected Versions:

  • All other versions

Fix(s) for issue

To fix this problem, you are recommended to update to the latest version of DotNetNuke (5.6.1 at time of writing)

Acknowledgments

Community members David Lee & Roger Selwyn independantly reported the issue.

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