Access Restriction Bypass Affecting drupal/core package, versions >=8.0, <8.3.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-DRUPALCORE-70064
  • published16 Aug 2017
  • disclosed16 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-6924  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade drupal/core to version 8.3.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of drupal/core are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass.

When using the REST API, users without the correct permission can post comments via REST that are approved even if the user does not have permission to post approved comments.

CVSS Scores

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