SCA: security update for drupal/core, drupal/drupal (GHSA-qqxc-cppg-4xp8)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432735

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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." (CVE-2016-3168)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qqxc-cppg-4xp8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432735

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3168

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3168

BID: 83416