SCA: security update for drupal/core, drupal/drupal (GHSA-98w5-wqp9-w466)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434883

Description

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

- The user password reset form in Drupal 8.x before 8.2.3 allows remote attackers to conduct cache poisoning
attacks by leveraging failure to specify a correct cache context. (CVE-2016-9450)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-98w5-wqp9-w466

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434883

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9450

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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: 11/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9450

BID: 94367

cwe: CWE-345