[CKAN-Security] CKAN security issue

Mon Apr 6 19:59:32 UTC 2015

We just had an incident with CKAN last week which might be worth keeping an eye on.  A user from Turkey created an account called "administrator" and filled their profile with propaganda claiming they are the "Cyberizm Digital Security Team".  You can see the content (for the time being) at:
http://labs.geodata.gov.gr/user/administrator

I am going to try to override the CKAN authentication so that only users can see their own profile, and the user list.  You might want to build in some way for sysadmins to turn off public profiles.  You might also want to warn the other vandalized ckan instances that this content is there.  I see a bunch when I google "ckan Cyberizm Digital Security Team"

Andrew Koebrick  |  MINNESOTA GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION OFFICE
Web Coordinator / Systems administrator / Librarian
MN.IT Services @ CENTRAL
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