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CVE-2016-3171
Drupal 6.x before 6.38, when used with PHP before 5.4.45, 5.5.x before 5.5.29, or 5.6.x before 5.6.13, might allow remote attackers to…
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Drupal 6.x before 6.38, when used with PHP before 5.4.45, 5.5.x before 5.5.29, or 5.6.x before 5.6.13, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to session data truncation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 28 days later
· 28 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistdrupal/coreGHSA-69g8-g9jq-74v7 (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistdrupal/drupalGHSA-69g8-g9jq-74v7 (opens in a new tab)
References
4
- [oss-security] 20160224 CVE requests for Drupal core (SA-CORE-2016-001) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160315 Re: CVE requests for Drupal core (SA-CORE-2016-001) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3498 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-2762 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-69g8-g9jq-74v7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2016-3171)Record last updated .