[DRUPAL-SA-2006-001] Drupal 4.6.6 / 4.5.8 fixes access control issue

Drupal security advisory DRUPAL-SA-2006-001

Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2006-001
Project: Drupal core
Date: 2006-03-13
Security risk: less critical
Impact: security bypass
Where: from remote
Vulnerability: bypass access control

Description

If you use menu.module to create a menu item, the page you point to will be
accessible to all, even if it is an admin page.

Versions affected

All Drupal versions before 4.6.6.

Solution

If you are running Drupal 4.5.x then upgrade to Drupal 4.5.8.
If you are running Drupal 4.6.x then upgrade to Drupal 4.6.6.

Contact

The security contact for Drupal can be reached at [email protected]
or using the form at http://drupal.org/contact.
More information is available from http://drupal.org/security or from
our security RSS feed http://drupal.org/security/rss.xml.

// Uwe Hermann, on behalf of the Drupal Security Team.

Uwe Hermann
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