QID 154143

Date Published: 2023-10-11

QID 154143: Drupal Core: Cache Poisoning Vulnerability (CVE-2023-5256)

Drupal is a free and open source content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

In certain scenarios, Drupals JSON:API module will output error backtraces. With some configurations, this may cause sensitive information to be cached and made available to anonymous users, leading to privilege escalation.
This vulnerability only affects sites with the JSON:API module enabled, and can be mitigated by uninstalling JSON:API.

Affected Versions:
Drupal from 8.7.0 to 9.5.11
Drupal from 10.0.0 to 10.0.11
Drupal from 10.1.0 to 10.1.4

QID Detection Logic:(Unauthenticated)
This QID checks for vulnerable version of Drupal installed on the target.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause sensitive information to be cached and made available to anonymous users, leading to privilege escalation.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.6 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to install latest Drupal version.
For more information visit Drupal security advisory SA-CORE-2023-006.

Vendor References

SA-CORE-2023-006 - www.drupal.org/sa-core-2023-006

CVEs related to QID 154143

CVE-2023-5256 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
SA-CORE-2023-006			www.drupal.org/sa-core-2023-006

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