CVE-2017-6919

Publication date 20 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Drupal 8 before 8.2.8 and 8.3 before 8.3.1 allows critical access bypass by authenticated users if the RESTful Web Services (rest) module is enabled and the site allows PATCH requests.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
drupal7	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

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Notes

ratliff

Upstream: "Drupal 7.x is not affected."

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2017-002
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6919