Drupal Entity access bypass for entities that do not have UUIDs or have protected revisions

published 2019-01-15 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-f4qx-jqfq-7785 , EUVD-2022-3687

cvss: 9.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 3.0%; EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits: 0; none known

In versions of Drupal 8 core prior to 8.3.7; There is a vulnerability in the entity access system that could allow unwanted access to view, create, update, or delete entities. This only affects entities that do not use or do not have UUIDs, and entities that have different access restrictions on different revisions of the same entity.

Patch / fix

fixed in 3

packagist drupal/core 8.3.7
packagist drupal/drupal 8.3.7
drupal drupal 8.3.7

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-2017-6925 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 7.5

drupal8: Multiple Vulnerabilities - SA-CORE-2017-004

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

3.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub	3.0	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
packagist	drupal/core	>=8.0, <8.3.7	8.3.7
packagist	drupal/drupal	>=8.0, <8.3.7	8.3.7

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

drupal.org /forum/newsletters/security-advisories-for-drupal-core/2017-08-16/drupal-core-multiple
web, mitigation, vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/100368
vdb-entry, web, third-party-advisory
securitytracker.com /id/1039200
vdb-entry, web, third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6925
advisory
github.com /FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/core/CVE-2017-6925.yaml
web
github.com /FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/drupal/CVE-2017-6925.yaml
web
github.com /drupal/core
package
drupal.org /SA-CORE-2017-004
web

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-6925
GitHub Advisory GHSA-f4qx-jqfq-7785
NVD CVE-2017-6925

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Summary