[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2009-049 - Live - Privilege escalation, Impersonation

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  * Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2009-049
  * Project: Live (third-party module)
  * Version: 6.x
  * Date: 2009-July-29
  * Security risk: Highly critical
  * Exploitable from: Remote
  * Vulnerability: Impersonation, privilege escalation

-------- DESCRIPTION  
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The Live module provides dynamic previews of content. When editing certain
content (nodes), the current user becomes logged in as the content's original
author.
-------- VERSIONS AFFECTED  
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  * Live for Drupal 6.x prior to 6.x-1.2

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Live module,
there is nothing you need to do.
-------- SOLUTION  
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Upgrade to the latest version:
  * If you use Live for Drupal 6.x upgrade to Live 6.x-1.2 [1]

See also the Live project page [2].
-------- REPORTED BY  
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Roderik Muit [3]
-------- FIXED BY  
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frjo [4]
-------- CONTACT  
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The security contact for Drupal can be reached at security at drupal.org or
via the form at http://drupal.org/contact.

[1] http://drupal.org/node/534976
[2] http://drupal.org/project/live
[3] http://drupal.org/user/8841
[4] http://drupal.org/user/5546