Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
High

Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-19902

An issue was discovered in Backdrop CMS 1.13.x before 1.13.5 and 1.14.x before 1.14.2. It allows the upload of entire-site configuration archives through the user interface or command line. It does not sufficiently check uploaded archives for invalid data, allowing non-configuration scripts to potentially be uploaded to the server. This issue is mitigated by the fact that the attacker would be required to have the "Synchronize, import, and export configuration" permission, a permission that only trusted administrators should be given. Other measures in the product prevent the execution of PHP scripts, so another server-side scripting language must be accessible on the server to execute code.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2019-19902
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 04:14 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-19902

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 Dec 2019, 06:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Backdrop CMS 1.13.x before 1.13.5 and 1.14.x before 1.14.2. It allows the upload of entire-site configuration archives through the user interface or command line. It does not sufficiently check uploaded archives for invalid data, allowing non-configuration scripts to potentially be uploaded to the server. This issue is mitigated by the fact that the attacker would be required to have the "Synchronize, import, and export configuration" permission, a permission that only trusted administrators should be given. Other measures in the product prevent the execution of PHP scripts, so another server-side scripting language must be accessible on the server to execute code.

osv:CVE-2019-19902
Complete source record
{
  "id": "0a74ab0da40eaeaaa790191426ec861fb9e3723ee4d7136d972ca125d5243def",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-19902",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-19902",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Backdrop CMS 1.13.x before 1.13.5 and 1.14.x before 1.14.2. It allows the upload of entire-site configuration archives through the user interface or command line. It does not sufficiently check uploaded archives for invalid data, allowing non-configuration scripts to potentially be uploaded to the server. This issue is mitigated by the fact that the attacker would be required to have the \"Synchronize, import, and export configuration\" permission, a permission that only trusted administrators should be given. Other measures in the product prevent the execution of PHP scripts, so another server-side scripting language must be accessible on the server to execute code.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-19902",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-19902",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-19902"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "9d7c5d90930b5b21f3183d035e1cfa9471b8827d"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "1836c576fe938b5baec7827832a10a6088dbcd20"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "5e55d3d97c0a7b23a68076d5321212c17da3fbe9"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "9bb3c616b85ae64ef6490793083ffeabf9182e46"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:backdropcms:backdrop_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.13.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.13.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:backdropcms:backdrop_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.14.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.14.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.14.1",
            "1.14.0",
            "1.13.4",
            "1.13.3",
            "1.13.2",
            "1.13.1",
            "1.13.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-19902.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:15.708457975Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://backdropcms.org/security/backdrop-sa-core-2019-016"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-19902",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429203,
  "published_at": "2019-12-19T06:15:11.117+00:00"
}