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Drupal Users without "Administer comments" can set comment visibility on nodes they can edit

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 23, 2024

Package

composer drupal/core (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 8.0.0, < 8.1.10

Patched versions

8.1.10
composer drupal/drupal (Composer)
>= 8.0.0, < 8.1.10
8.1.10

Description

Drupal 8.x before 8.1.10 does not properly check for "Administer comments" permission, which allows remote authenticated users to set the visibility of comments for arbitrary nodes by leveraging rights to edit those nodes.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 3, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Apr 23, 2024
Last updated Apr 23, 2024

Severity

Moderate
4.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-7570

GHSA ID

GHSA-6g9h-6v79-w4pc

Source code

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