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SCA: security update for drupal/core, drupal/drupal (GHSA-h3r9-pjmr-f938)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434887

Description

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

 - The XML-RPC system in Drupal 6.x before 6.38 and 7.x before 7.43 might make it easier for remote attackers
 to conduct brute-force attacks via a large number of calls made at once to the same method.
 (CVE-2016-3163)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h3r9-pjmr-f938

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434887

Version: Revision 1.5

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-2016-3163

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: 2/24/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3163

BID: 83416