USN-6913-2: phpCAS vulnerability

31 July 2024

phpCAS was vulnerable to an authentication bypass.

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Releases

Packages

  • php-cas - Central Authentication Service client library in php

Details

USN-6913-1 fixed CVE-2022-39369 for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
This update provides the corresponding fix for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

Filip Hejsek discovered that phpCAS was using HTTP headers to determine
the service URL used to validate tickets. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to gain access to a victim's account on a
vulnerable CASified service.

This security update introduces an incompatible API change. After applying
this update, third party applications need to be modified to pass in an
additional service base URL argument when constructing the client class.

For more information please refer to the section
"Upgrading 1.5.0 -> 1.6.0" of the phpCAS upgrading document:

https://github.com/apereo/phpCAS/blob/master/docs/Upgrading

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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