Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-9451 - Open Redirect vulnerability in Drupal
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
Confirmation forms in Drupal 7.x before 7.52 make it easier for remote authenticated users to conduct open redirect attacks via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Fake the Source of Data An adversary provides data under a falsified identity. The purpose of using the falsified identity may be to prevent traceability of the provided data or it might be an attempt by the adversary to assume the rights granted to another identity. One of the simplest forms of this attack would be the creation of an email message with a modified "From" field in order to appear that the message was sent from someone other than the actual sender. Results of the attack vary depending on the details of the attack, but common results include privilege escalation, obfuscation of other attacks, and data corruption/manipulation.
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_8DB24888B2F511E6815300248C0C745D.NASL description The Drupal development team reports : Inconsistent name for term access query (Less critical - Drupal 7 and Drupal 8) Drupal provides a mechanism to alter database SELECT queries before they are executed. Contributed and custom modules may use this mechanism to restrict access to certain entities by implementing hook_query_alter() or hook_query_TAG_alter() in order to add additional conditions. Queries can be distinguished by means of query tags. As the documentation on EntityFieldQuery::addTag() suggests, access-tags on entity queries normally follow the form ENTITY_TYPE_access (e.g. node_access). However, the taxonomy module last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 95365 published 2016-11-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95365 title FreeBSD : Drupal Code -- Multiple Vulnerabilities (8db24888-b2f5-11e6-8153-00248c0c745d) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, # published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript, # RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(95365); script_version("3.8"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:45"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9449", "CVE-2016-9450", "CVE-2016-9451", "CVE-2016-9452"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : Drupal Code -- Multiple Vulnerabilities (8db24888-b2f5-11e6-8153-00248c0c745d)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The Drupal development team reports : Inconsistent name for term access query (Less critical - Drupal 7 and Drupal 8) Drupal provides a mechanism to alter database SELECT queries before they are executed. Contributed and custom modules may use this mechanism to restrict access to certain entities by implementing hook_query_alter() or hook_query_TAG_alter() in order to add additional conditions. Queries can be distinguished by means of query tags. As the documentation on EntityFieldQuery::addTag() suggests, access-tags on entity queries normally follow the form ENTITY_TYPE_access (e.g. node_access). However, the taxonomy module's access query tag predated this system and used term_access as the query tag instead of taxonomy_term_access. As a result, before this security release modules wishing to restrict access to taxonomy terms may have implemented an unsupported tag, or needed to look for both tags (term_access and taxonomy_term_access) in order to be compatible with queries generated both by Drupal core as well as those generated by contributed modules like Entity Reference. Otherwise information on taxonomy terms might have been disclosed to unprivileged users. Incorrect cache context on password reset page (Less critical - Drupal 8) The user password reset form does not specify a proper cache context, which can lead to cache poisoning and unwanted content on the page. Confirmation forms allow external URLs to be injected (Moderately critical - Drupal 7) Under certain circumstances, malicious users could construct a URL to a confirmation form that would trick users into being redirected to a 3rd party website after interacting with the form, thereby exposing the users to potential social engineering attacks. Denial of service via transliterate mechanism (Moderately critical - Drupal 8) A specially crafted URL can cause a denial of service via the transliterate mechanism." ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/8db24888-b2f5-11e6-8153-00248c0c745d.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?92d3fe4a" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:drupal7"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:drupal8"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/11/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/25"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/28"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"drupal7>=7.0<7.52")) flag++; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"drupal8>=8.0.0<8.2.3")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family CGI abuses NASL id DRUPAL_8_2_3.NASL description The version of Drupal running on the remote web server is 7.x prior to 7.52 or 8.x prior to 8.2.3. It is, therefore, affected by the multiple vulnerabilities : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the taxonomy module when using access query tags that are inconsistent with the standard system used by Drupal Core. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to disclose sensitive information regarding taxonomy terms. (CVE-2016-9449) - A flaw exists in the password reset form due to a failure to properly specify a cache context. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to poison the cache, by adding, for example, unwanted content to the page. Note that this issue only affects version 8.x. (CVE-2016-9450) - A cross-site redirection vulnerability exists in the confirmation form due to improper validation of input before returning it to users. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted link, to redirect the user to a website of the attacker last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 95026 published 2016-11-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95026 title Drupal 7.x < 7.52 / 8.x < 8.2.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(95026); script_version("1.10"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/14"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2016-9449", "CVE-2016-9450", "CVE-2016-9451", "CVE-2016-9452" ); script_bugtraq_id(94367); script_name(english:"Drupal 7.x < 7.52 / 8.x < 8.2.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Checks the version of Drupal."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "A PHP application running on the remote web server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The version of Drupal running on the remote web server is 7.x prior to 7.52 or 8.x prior to 8.2.3. It is, therefore, affected by the multiple vulnerabilities : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the taxonomy module when using access query tags that are inconsistent with the standard system used by Drupal Core. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to disclose sensitive information regarding taxonomy terms. (CVE-2016-9449) - A flaw exists in the password reset form due to a failure to properly specify a cache context. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to poison the cache, by adding, for example, unwanted content to the page. Note that this issue only affects version 8.x. (CVE-2016-9450) - A cross-site redirection vulnerability exists in the confirmation form due to improper validation of input before returning it to users. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted link, to redirect the user to a website of the attacker's choosing. Note that this issue only affects version 7.x. (CVE-2016-9451) - A denial of service vulnerability exists in the transliterate mechanism when handling specially crafted URLs. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to cause a crash. Note that this issue only affects version 8.x. (CVE-2016-9452) Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-005"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.52"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/8.2.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade to Drupal version 7.52 / 8.2.3 or later."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-9450"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/11/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"potential_vulnerability", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:drupal:drupal"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"CGI abuses"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("drupal_detect.nasl"); script_require_keys("www/PHP", "installed_sw/Drupal", "Settings/ParanoidReport"); script_require_ports("Services/www", 80, 443); exit(0); } include("vcf.inc"); include("http.inc"); app = "Drupal"; get_install_count(app_name:app, exit_if_zero:TRUE); if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID); port = get_http_port(default:80, php:TRUE); app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:app, port:port, webapp:TRUE); vcf::check_granularity(app_info:app_info, sig_segments:2); constraints = [ {"min_version" : "7.0", "fixed_version" : "7.52"}, {"min_version" : "8.0", "fixed_version" : "8.2.3"} ]; vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3718.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities has been found in the Drupal content management framework. For additional information, please refer to the upstream advisory at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-005 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 94943 published 2016-11-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94943 title Debian DSA-3718-1 : drupal7 - security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3718. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(94943); script_version("2.13"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/12/18 10:18:58"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9449", "CVE-2016-9451"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3718"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3718-1 : drupal7 - security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Multiple vulnerabilities has been found in the Drupal content management framework. For additional information, please refer to the upstream advisory at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-005" ); # https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-005 script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?26a43e29" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/drupal7" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3718" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the drupal7 packages. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.32-1+deb8u8." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:drupal7"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/18"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"drupal7", reference:"7.32-1+deb8u8")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-715.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Drupal content management framework. For additional information, please refer to the upstream advisory at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-005. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2016-11-22 plugin id 95031 published 2016-11-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95031 title Debian DLA-715-1 : drupal7 security update code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-715-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(95031); script_version("2.12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9449", "CVE-2016-9451"); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-715-1 : drupal7 security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Drupal content management framework. For additional information, please refer to the upstream advisory at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-005. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 7.14-2+deb7u15. We recommend that you upgrade your drupal7 packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/11/msg00022.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/drupal7" ); # https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-005 script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?26a43e29" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected drupal7 package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:drupal7"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/22"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"drupal7", reference:"7.14-2+deb7u15")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");