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high 8.1

CVE-2016-3162 json

Drupal File upload access bypass and denial of service

published 10y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-w2pj-c8x5-jvg2 , EUVD-2022-5465

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The File module in Drupal 7.x before 7.43 and 8.x before 8.0.4 allows remote authenticated users to bypass access restrictions and read, delete, or substitute a link to a file uploaded to an unprocessed form by leveraging permission to create content or comment and upload files.

Patch / fix

  • packagist drupal/core 7.43, 8.0.4
  • packagist drupal/drupal 7.43, 8.0.4

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-3162 updated cvss 6.8

drupal: several issues fixed in 7.43 and 6.38 (SA-CORE-2016-001)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist drupal/core
>=7.0, <7.43
>=8.0, <8.0.4
7.43
8.0.4
packagist drupal/drupal
>=8.0, <8.0.4
>=7.0, <7.43
8.0.4
7.43

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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