cvelistv5 - CVE-2017-6924

CVE-2017-6924

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2019-01-15 20:00

Modified

2024-09-16 16:57

Severity ?

Summary

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

References

URL	Tags
mlhess@drupal.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100368	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
mlhess@drupal.org	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039200	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
mlhess@drupal.org	https://www.drupal.org/forum/newsletters/security-advisories-for-drupal-core/2017-08-16/drupal-core-multiple	Mitigation, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Drupal	Drupal Core

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Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
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CVE-2017-6924

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

gsd-2017-6924

Vulnerability from gsd

ghsa-p8g6-5mg7-9r5q

Vulnerability from github

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