DRUPAL-CORE-2023-005 BIT-drupal-2023-31250 CVE-2023-31250 GHSA-8849-cv9f-vccm
Access bypass in Drupal core
- Severity
- 6.5 / 10
- Medium · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.54%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 45.42% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
- Fix
10.0.8- Upgrade drupal/core to this version or later
Description
The file download facility doesn't sufficiently sanitize file paths in certain situations. This may result in users gaining access to private files that they should not have access to.
Some sites may require configuration changes following this security release. Review the release notes for your Drupal version if you have issues accessing private files after updating.
This advisory is covered by Drupal Steward. Because this vulnerability is not mass exploitable, your Steward partner may respond by monitoring-only, rather than enforcing a new WAF rule.
We would normally not apply for a release of this severity. However, in this case we have chosen to apply Drupal Steward security coverage to test our processes.
Drupal 7
- All Drupal 7 sites on Windows web servers are vulnerable.
- Drupal 7 sites on Linux web servers are vulnerable with certain file directory structures, or if a vulnerable contributed or custom file access module is installed.
Drupal 9 and 10
Drupal 9 and 10 sites are only vulnerable if certain contributed or custom file access modules are installed.
Affected versions
Packagist
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| drupal/core | >= 8.0.0, < 9.4.14>= 9.5.0, < 9.5.8>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.8 |
9.4.149.5.810.0.8 |
| drupal/core | >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.8 |
10.0.8 |
| drupal/core | >= 9.5.0, < 9.5.8 |
9.5.8 |
| drupal/core | >= 9.0.0, < 9.4.14 |
9.4.14 |
| drupal/core | >= 7.0.0, < 7.96 |
7.96 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
drupal/core Packagist → 10.0.8
- composer
composer require drupal/core:^10.0.8
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Weakness
CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization
The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) [REF-229] to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries. Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the same role.
- Architecture and Design: Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records. For example, a database may restrict access for medical records to a specific database user, but each record might only be intended to be accessible to the patient and the patient's doctor [REF-7].
- Architecture and Design: Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid. For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
- Architecture and Design: For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page. One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests that are accompanied by an active and authenticated session token associated with a user who has the required permissions to access that page.
- System Configuration, Installation: Use the access control capabilities of your operating system and server environment and define your access control lists accordingly. Use a "default deny" policy when defining these ACLs.
References
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Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
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|---|---|---|
| DRUPAL-CORE-2026-004 Drupal Core has a SQL Injection issue | Critical Known exploited | Also affects drupal/core |
| CVE-2020-28949 Multiple vulnerabilities through filename manipulation in Archive_Tar | High Known exploited | Also affects drupal/core |
| CVE-2020-13671 Drupal core Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type | High Known exploited | Also affects drupal/core |
| CVE-2019-6340 Drupal Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | High Known exploited | Also affects drupal/core |
| CVE-2018-7602 Drupal Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Critical Known exploited | Also affects drupal/core |
| CVE-2018-7600 Drupal Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Critical Known exploited | Also affects drupal/core |
| DRUPAL-CORE-2026-016 The Navigation module doesn't sufficiently sanitize certain attributes, which can lead to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. | Not rated yet | Also affects drupal/core |
| DRUPAL-CORE-2026-015 The Drupal core Link module provides a field type that can be used for internal and external URLs. | Not rated yet | Also affects drupal/core |
Credits: Conrad Lara, Guy Elsmore-Paddock, Heine
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