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CVE-2020-13664

Arbitrary PHP code execution vulnerability in Drupal Core under certain circumstances. An attacker could trick an admini

Arbitrary PHP code execution vulnerability in Drupal Core under certain circumstances. An attacker could trick an administrator into visiting a malicious site that could result in creating a carefully named directory on the file system. With this directory in place, an attacker could attempt to brute force a remote code execution vulnerability. Windows servers are most likely to be affected. This issue affects: Drupal Core 8.8.x versions prior to 8.8.8.

8.9.x versions prior to 8.9.1.

9.0.1 versions prior to 9.0.1.

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 0.01962
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Affected Products & Versions

3
drupal>= 8.8.0 and < 8.8.8
drupal>= 8.9.0 and < 8.9.1
drupal>= 9.0.0 and < 9.0.1

Affected Packages

2
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Packagist drupal/core HIGH fixed in 8.8.8
Packagist drupal/drupal HIGH fixed in 8.8.8

Scoring & Timeline

8.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · mlhess@drupal.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD05 May 2021 · 03:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References & Sources

1
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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