Description

Drupal Core is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to perform otherwise restricted actions and subsequently see the number of hits collected by the Statistics module for results in the view. Drupal Core versions 8.x ranging from 8.0.0 and up to and including 8.1.2 are vulnerable.

Remediation

Update to Drupal Core version 8.1.3 or latest

References

https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-002

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/13/7

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2016-6212 CWE-264 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Authentication Bypass