🛡️ CVE-2016-9449 — core

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Drupal sensitive information disclosure

The taxonomy module in Drupal 7.x before 7.52 and 8.x before 8.2.3 might allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information about taxonomy terms by leveraging inconsistent naming of access query tags.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-9449 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.

Affected software

CVE-2016-9449 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • drupal/core (from 8.0 up to 8.2.3)
  • drupal/drupal (from 7.0 up to 7.52)

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.securityfocus.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-200
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 8.0 8.2.3
drupal/drupal 7.0 7.52

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