Brute Force Affecting drupal/core package, versions >=6, <6.38>=7, <7.43


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-DRUPALCORE-70038
  • published15 Feb 2016
  • disclosed15 Feb 2016
  • creditStéphane Corlosquet

Introduced: 15 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-3163  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-307  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade drupal/core to version 6.38, 7.43 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of drupal/core are vulnerable to Brute force amplification attacks via XML-RPC.

The XML-RPC system allows a large number of calls to the same method to be made at once, which can be used as an enabling factor in brute force attacks (for example, attempting to determine user passwords by submitting a large number of password variations at once).

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