View online: https://drupal.org/node/1828340
* Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-159 * Project: Password policy [1] (third-party module) * Version: 6.x, 7.x * Date: 2012-October-31 * Security risk: Moderately critical [2] * Exploitable from: Remote * Vulnerability: Information Disclosure
-------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------
This module provides a way to specify a certain level of password complexity (aka. "password hardening") for user passwords on a system by defining a password policy.
The Password policy module allows administrators to request users to enter a new password that does not match any of the previous X passwords they have used (X is determined by the site configuration). If this feature is enabled, a malicious user with the capability to view another user's HTTP traffic can discover the hashed version of their password. This issue is more of a risk for Drupal 6 sites that use the default md5 password encryption.
This issue only affects sites that use the module's "previous passwords" feature, and fail to encrypt their users' HTTP transactions with SSL/TLS.
CVE: Requested
-------- VERSIONS AFFECTED ---------------------------------------------------
* Password policy 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.5. * Password policy 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.3.
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Password policy [3] module, there is nothing you need to do.
-------- SOLUTION ------------------------------------------------------------
Install the latest version:
* If you use the Password policy module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to Password policy 6.x-1.5 [4] * If you use the Password policy module for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to Password policy 7.x-1.3 [5]
Also see the Password policy [6] project page.
-------- REPORTED BY ---------------------------------------------------------
* Alexis Wilke [7]
-------- FIXED BY ------------------------------------------------------------
* Mark Shropshire [8]
-------- COORDINATED BY ------------------------------------------------------
* Greg Knaddison [9] of the Drupal Security Team * Michael Hess [10] of the Drupal Security Team * Damien Tournoud [11] of the Drupal Security Team
-------- CONTACT AND MORE INFORMATION ----------------------------------------
The Drupal security team can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the contact form at http://drupal.org/contact [12].
Learn more about the Drupal Security team and their policies [13], writing secure code for Drupal [14], and securing your site [15].
[1] http://drupal.org/project/password_policy [2] http://drupal.org/security-team/risk-levels [3] http://drupal.org/project/password_policy [4] https://drupal.org/node/1828130 [5] https://drupal.org/node/1828142 [6] http://drupal.org/project/password_policy [7] http://drupal.org/user/356197 [8] http://drupal.org/user/14767 [9] http://drupal.org/user/36762 [10] http://drupal.org/user/102818 [11] http://drupal.org/user/22211 [12] http://drupal.org/contact [13] http://drupal.org/security-team [14] http://drupal.org/writing-secure-code [15] http://drupal.org/security/secure-configuration