Privilege Escalation Affecting drupal/core package, versions >=6, <6.38 >=7, <7.43
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.47% (76th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-DRUPALCORE-70044
- published 15 Feb 2016
- disclosed 15 Feb 2016
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 15 Feb 2016
CVE-2016-3169 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade drupal/core to version 6.38, 7.43 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of drupal/core are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation.
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.