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Fencer Intel
medium 6.4

CVE-2016-3168 json

Drupal Reflected file download vulnerability

published 2016-04-12 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-qqxc-cppg-4xp8 , EUVD-2022-5018

cvss
6.4
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The System module in Drupal 6.x before 6.38 and 7.x before 7.43 might allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of site administrators for requests that download and run files with arbitrary JSON-encoded content, aka a "reflected file download vulnerability."

Patch / fix

  • packagist drupal/core 6.38, 7.43
  • packagist drupal/drupal 6.38, 7.43

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-2016-3168 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

2.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 8.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.0 6.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist drupal/core
>=6.0, <6.38
>=7.0, <7.43
6.38
7.43
packagist drupal/drupal
>=7.0, <7.43
>=6.0, <6.38
7.43
6.38

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.