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🛡️ GHSA-j66p-fvp2-fxhj — drupal (CVE-2020-28948 +1 more)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Drupal core Arbitrary PHP code execution

The Drupal project uses the PEAR Archive_Tar library. The PEAR Archive_Tar library has released a security update that impacts Drupal. For more information please see:

CVE-2020-28948

CVE-2020-28949

Multiple vulnerabilities are possible if Drupal is configured to allow .tar, .tar.gz, .bz2, or .tlz file uploads and processes them.

To mitigate this issue, prevent untrusted users from uploading .tar, .tar.gz, .bz2, or .tlz files.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-j66p-fvp2-fxhj is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

GHSA-j66p-fvp2-fxhj is recorded against 1 package.

  • drupal/drupal (from 9.0.0 up to 9.0.9)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 May 2024 and last revised on 29 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.drupal.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-05-15
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-11-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
drupal/drupal 9.0.0 9.0.9

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