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Drupal: CVE-2016-3170 : Email address can be matched to an account - SA-CORE-2016-001

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Drupal: CVE-2016-3170 : Email address can be matched to an account - SA-CORE-2016-001

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/02/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The "have you forgotten your password" links in the User module in Drupal 7.x before 7.43 and 8.x before 8.0.4 allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive username information by leveraging a configuration that permits using an email address to login and a module that permits logging in.

Solution(s)

  • drupal-cve-2016-3170-1
  • drupal-cve-2016-3170-2

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