Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers OpenProject Attachment Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Denial Of Service Vulnerability in OpenProject.

OpenProject is a web-based project management system for location-independent team collaboration.

OpenProject is susceptible to a Denial Of Service vulnerability when filename is passed as an integer value to the upload attachment API.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

OpenProject.Project.Attachment.DoS
Released Nov 12, 2019

Users should apply patch provided by OpenProject

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to OpenProject on 21 October, 2019. 

OpenProject confirmed the vulnerability on 31 October, 2019. 

OpenProject released patch for the vulnerability on 12 November, 2019.

References

• https://github.com/opf/openproject/pull/7841/commits/3adce4d7c8e6b5a9d30305936edc269641b23a47
  

  https://docs.openproject.com/release-notes/10-2-0/
  

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Nguyen Thanh Nguyen of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

IPS Subscription

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