CVE-2008-6171 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2008-6171?

CVE-2008-6171 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Drupal Drupal, published on 19 Feb 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

includes/bootstrap.inc in Drupal 5.x before 5.12 and 6.x before 6.6, when the server is configured for "IP-based virtual hosts," allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary files via the HTTP Host header.

Weakness: CWE-20, CWE-16

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-6171?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Drupal Drupal.

How do I fix CVE-2008-6171?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-6171 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2008-6171 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-6171 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CVE-2008-6176, GHSA-xhmx-mwfm-vrhx.