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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2016-9450 json

Drupal Incorrect cache context on password reset page

published 2016-11-25 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-98w5-wqp9-w466 , EUVD-2022-3331

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The user password reset form in Drupal 8.x before 8.2.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cache poisoning attacks by leveraging failure to specify a correct cache context.

Patch / fix

  • packagist drupal/core 8.2.3
  • packagist drupal/drupal 8.2.3
  • drupal Arch Linux 8.2.3-1

arch linux advisories AVG-74

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-2016-9450 updated

drupal: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 7.52

  • 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

1.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist drupal/core
>=8.0, <8.2.3
8.2.3
packagist drupal/drupal
>=8.0, <8.2.3
8.2.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

References

Sources

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