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🛡️ CVE-2024-45440 on Ubuntu — drupal7

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

core/authorize.php in Drupal 11.x-dev allows Full Path Disclosure (even when error logging is None) if the value of hash_salt is file_get_contents of a file that does not exist.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-45440 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package drupal7. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

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 low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45440 is classified as CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message. Error output includes internal detail such as paths, queries or stack traces that assists an attacker.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45440 is recorded against 1 package.

  • drupal7

Timeline and source

Published on 29 August 2024 and last revised on 8 September 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
www.drupal.org (Report)

Other advisories for this package

drupal7 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message) in other software:

CVE-2024-45440 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-29
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-09-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
drupal7 — —

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