CVE-2009-2374

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

Drupal 5.x before 5.19 and 6.x before 6.13 does not properly sanitize failed login attempts for pages that contain a sortable table, which includes the username and password in links that can be read from (1) the HTTP referer header of external web sites that are visited from those links or (2) when page caching is enabled, the Drupal page cache.

Affected products

Drupal: from 5.0 before 5.19; from 6.0 before 6.13 — fixed in 5.19, 6.13

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Drupal 5.19, 6.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://drupal.org/node/507572
http://osvdb.org/55524
http://secunia.com/advisories/35657
http://secunia.com/advisories/35681
http://drupal.org/node/507572
http://osvdb.org/55524
http://secunia.com/advisories/35657
http://secunia.com/advisories/35681

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