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Several remotely exploitable vulnerabilities have been discovered in the
TYPO3 web content management framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2009-0255
Chris John Riley discovered that the TYPO3-wide used encryption key is
generated with an insufficiently random seed resulting in low entropy
which makes it easier for attackers to crack this key.
CVE-2009-0256
Marcus Krause discovered that TYPO3 is not invalidating a supplied session
on authentication which allows an attacker to take over a victims
session via a session fixation attack.
CVE-2009-0257
Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to
inject arbitrary web script or HTML via various arguments and user-
supplied strings used in the indexed search system extension, adodb
extension test scripts or the workspace module.
CVE-2009-0258
Mads Olesen discovered a remote command injection vulnerability in
the indexed se...
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