CVE-2016-3169
HIGH8.1EPSS 1.0%Drupal saving user accounts can sometimes grant the user all roles
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/23/2024
Description
The User module in Drupal 6.x before 6.38 and 7.x before 7.43 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by leveraging contributed or custom code that calls the user_save function with an explicit category and loads all roles into the array.
Affected packages (2)
- Packagist/drupal/core>= 6.0, < 6.38
- Packagist/drupal/drupal>= 7.0, < 7.43
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3169
- PATCHhttps://github.com/drupal/core
- WEBhttps://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/core/CVE-2016-3169.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/drupal/CVE-2016-3169.yaml
- WEBhttps://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001
- WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3498
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/19
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/10