drupal/core · Security
Drupal saving user accounts can sometimes grant the user all roles
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-q3p9-8728-wq7x
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-3169
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3169 ↗
- 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-2016-3169.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/drupal/CVE-2016-3169.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3p9-8728-wq7x ↗