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CVE-2017-6924

REST API can bypass comment approval - Access Bypass - Moderately Critical

High7.4EPSS 2.1%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
drupal

Description

In Drupal 8 prior to 8.3.7; When using the REST API, users without the correct permission can post comments via REST that are approved even if the user does not have permission to post approved comments. This issue only affects sites that have the RESTful Web Services (rest) module enabled, the comment entity REST resource enabled, and where an attacker can access a user account on the site with permissions to post comments, or where anonymous users can post comments.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By drupal

  2. · 22 months later

    Published

  3. · 6 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2017-6924, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0High7.4CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.

Weakness

Affected products

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References (3)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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