vulnerability / NVI-00013823 / Revision 1
Tina: [Broken Access Control] letting any TinaCloud user authorize against any self-hosted site
GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for @tinacms/auth, next-tinacms-azure. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.
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01 / Meaning
Why it matters
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8.8 high
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As of · GitHub Advisory Database
02 / Applicability
The affected context
Affected versions, configuration prerequisites and known exclusions are public. Confirm each one against the deployed service.
@tinacms/auth
source listed<= 1.1.3
## Summary `@tinacms/auth`'s `isAuthorized(req)` decides authorization by validating the caller's bearer token against `https://identity.tinajs.io/v2/apps/${req.query.clientID}/currentUser`, where the `clientID` comes from the request and is never compared to the site's own configured TinaCloud app id. The function answers "is this token a verified user of whatever app the caller named?" instead of "is this token a verified user of THIS site?" Any TinaCloud user can create their own free app, get a valid token for it, and send `?clientID=` plus `Authorization: ` to a victim self-hosted site. The victim's `authorized` callback runs `const user = await isAuthorized(req); return user && user.verified`, which returns `true`, and the victim authorizes the attacker. The attacker holds no account on the victim and needs no victim interaction. With the media handlers this grants read, upload, and delete on the victim's media bucket. When the backend uses `TinaCloudBackendAuthProvider()` (the default the `tinacms init` wizard generates for TinaCloud auth), it grants full GraphQL read, write, and delete of the victim's content. ## Affected code (confirm
next-tinacms-azure
source listed<= 15.0.0
## Summary `@tinacms/auth`'s `isAuthorized(req)` decides authorization by validating the caller's bearer token against `https://identity.tinajs.io/v2/apps/${req.query.clientID}/currentUser`, where the `clientID` comes from the request and is never compared to the site's own configured TinaCloud app id. The function answers "is this token a verified user of whatever app the caller named?" instead of "is this token a verified user of THIS site?" Any TinaCloud user can create their own free app, get a valid token for it, and send `?clientID=` plus `Authorization: ` to a victim self-hosted site. The victim's `authorized` callback runs `const user = await isAuthorized(req); return user && user.verified`, which returns `true`, and the victim authorizes the attacker. The attacker holds no account on the victim and needs no victim interaction. With the media handlers this grants read, upload, and delete on the victim's media bucket. When the backend uses `TinaCloudBackendAuthProvider()` (the default the `tinacms init` wizard generates for TinaCloud auth), it grants full GraphQL read, write, and delete of the victim's content. ## Affected code (confirm
03 / Response
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04 / Limits
What this report cannot establish
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05 / Provenance
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- GHSA-g74q-6g2f-874x ↗
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