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SCA: security update for drupal/core, drupal/drupal (GHSA-q3p9-8728-wq7x)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431825

Description

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

 - The User module in Drupal 6.x before 6.38 and 7.x before 7.43 allows remote attackers to gain privileges
 by leveraging contributed or custom code that calls the user_save function with an explicit category and
 loads all roles into the array. (CVE-2016-3169)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3p9-8728-wq7x

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 431825

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3169

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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-2016-3169

BID: 83416

cwe: CWE-269