drupal/core · Security
Drupal Brute force amplification attacks via XML-RPC
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-h3r9-pjmr-f938
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-3163
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Description
The XML-RPC system in Drupal 6.x before 6.38 and 7.x before 7.43 might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct brute-force attacks via a large number of calls made at once to the same method.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3163 ↗
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3498 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/19 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/10 ↗
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/core/CVE-2016-3163.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/drupal/CVE-2016-3163.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h3r9-pjmr-f938 ↗