CVE-2016-3168

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

The System module in Drupal 6.x before 6.38 and 7.x before 7.43 might allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of site administrators for requests that download and run files with arbitrary JSON-encoded content, aka a "reflected file download vulnerability."

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Drupal: 6.0, 6.0-beta1, 6.0-beta2, 6.0-beta3, 6.0-beta4, 6.0-dev (+99)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3498
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/19
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/10
https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3498
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/19
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/10
https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001

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