🛡️ CVE-2016-3167 — core

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-601 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Drupal Open redirect vulnerability in the drupal_goto function

Open redirect vulnerability in the drupal_goto function in Drupal 6.x before 6.38, when used with PHP before 5.4.7, allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a double-encoded URL in the "destination" parameter.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-3167 is classified as CWE-601: Open Redirect. A redirect target is taken from user input, so a trusted link can send the visitor to an attacker's site.

Affected software

CVE-2016-3167 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • drupal/core (from 6.0 up to 6.38)
  • drupal/drupal (from 6.0 up to 6.38)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 23 April 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.drupal.org (Web)
www.debian.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-601
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-04-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
drupal/core 6.0 6.38
drupal/drupal 6.0 6.38

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