Insufficient verification of data authenticity in Drupal - CVE-2016-9450
Published: November 25, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40007
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9450
CWE-ID: CWE-345
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
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.
Affected software
Drupal
Arch Linux
Fedora
drupal7
Arch Linux
Fedora
drupal7
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9450
Install update from vendor's website.
drupal7 - addressed in versions 7.52-1.el5, 7.52-1.el6, 7.52-1.el7, 7.52-1.fc23, 7.52-1.fc24, 7.52-1.fc25