🛡️ CVE-2017-6926 — core

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Drupal Comment reply form allows access to restricted content

In Drupal versions 8.4.x versions before 8.4.5 users with permission to post comments are able to view content and comments they do not have access to, and are also able to add comments to this content. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that the comment system must be enabled and the attacker must have permission to post comments.

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 high, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2017-6926 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-2017-6926 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • drupal/core (from 7.0 up to 7.57)
  • drupal/drupal (from 7.0 up to 7.57)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 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)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-200
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-04-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
drupal/core 7.0 7.57
drupal/drupal 7.0 7.57

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