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Drupal: CVE-2016-3169 : Saving user accounts can sometimes grant the user all roles - SA-CORE-2016-001

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Drupal: CVE-2016-3169 : Saving user accounts can sometimes grant the user all roles - SA-CORE-2016-001

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/02/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The User module in Drupal 6.x before 6.38 and 7.x before 7.43 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by leveraging contributed or custom code that calls the user_save function with an explicit category and loads all roles into the array.

Solution(s)

  • drupal-cve-2016-3169-1
  • drupal-cve-2016-3169-2

References

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