PT-2016-5398 · Drupal · Drupal

Annie Gerard + 1 · Published 2016-02-28 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2016-3169

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Drupal versions 6.x prior to 6.38 Drupal versions 7.x prior to 7.43

Description The issue 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.

Recommendations For Drupal 6.x, update to version 6.38 or later. For Drupal 7.x, update to version 7.43 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-3169

DSA-3498-1

GHSA-Q3P9-8728-WQ7X

Affected Products

Drupal

References · 14

• 🔥 https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/core/CVE-2016-3169.yaml · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/drupal/CVE-2016-3169.yaml · Exploit
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3498 · Vendor Advisory
• https://drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3169 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3169 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3169 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3498-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3169 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3169 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-q3p9-8728-wq7x · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/drupal/core · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/19 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/10 · Note