CVE-2008-3741

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The private filesystem in Drupal 5.x before 5.10 and 6.x before 6.4 trusts the MIME type sent by a web browser, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by uploading files containing arbitrary web script or HTML.

Affected products

Drupal: 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (+8)

References

http://drupal.org/node/295053
http://secunia.com/advisories/31462
http://secunia.com/advisories/31825
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30689
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2392
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459108
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44446
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00259.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00508.html
http://drupal.org/node/295053
http://secunia.com/advisories/31462
http://secunia.com/advisories/31825

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