🛡️ CVE-2016-9450 — core

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-345 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Drupal Incorrect cache context on password reset page

The user password reset form in Drupal 8.x before 8.2.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cache poisoning attacks by leveraging failure to specify a correct cache context.

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. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-9450 is classified as CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. Data is trusted without confirming it really came from the claimed source and was not altered.

Affected software

CVE-2016-9450 is recorded against 2 packages.

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

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.securityfocus.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-345
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 8.0 8.2.3

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