GHSA-4gh5-3hqj-x3pj CVE-2016-3165
Drupal Form API ignores access restrictions on submit buttons
- Severity
- 7.5 / 10
- High · CVSS 3.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 1.36%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 71.72% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
- Fix
- Available
- 2 packages have a fixed version
Description
The Form API in Drupal 6.x before 6.38 ignores access restrictions on submit buttons, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging permission to submit a form with a button that has "#access" set to FALSE in the server-side form definition.
Affected versions
Packagist
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| drupal/core | >= 6.0, < 6.38 |
6.38 |
| drupal/drupal | >= 6.0, < 6.38 |
6.38 |
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 → 6.38
- composer
composer require drupal/core:^6.38
drupal/drupal Packagist → 6.38
- composer
composer require drupal/drupal:^6.38
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.0 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Weakness
CWE-284: Improper Access Control
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design, Operation: Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
- Architecture and Design: Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
References
Advisories
Packages
Other links
- github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/core/CVE-2016-31…
- github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/drupal/CVE-2016-…
- drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001
- debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3498
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/19
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/10
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
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