Chaos Tool Suite (ctools) - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CONTRIB-2021-009

Project: Chaos Tool Suite (ctools)
Version: 8.x-3.5, 8.x-3.4, 8.x-3.3, 8.x-3.2, 8.x-3.1, 8.x-3.0
Date: 2021-May-12
Security risk: Moderately critical 12∕25
Vulnerability: Information disclosure

Description

Chaos tool suite (ctools) module provides a number of APIs and extensions for Drupal, it's 8.x-3.x branch is a start from scratch to evaluate the features of ctools that didn't make it into Drupal Core 8.0.x and port them.

The module doesn't sufficiently handle access control on its EntityView plugin.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that successful exploitation requires special conditions in place such as custom solutions that allow injecting the context by means other than the route.

Solution

Install the latest version:

If you use the Chaos tool suite module for Drupal 8.x, upgrade to Chaos tool suite 8.x-3.6