{"answers":{"affected":"8 open source packages ship an affected version, including drupal/core and drupal/drupal. It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3169 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade drupal/core to a fixed version for your release line: 6.38 or 7.43.","what":"CVE-2016-3169 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 12 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-3169 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-3169 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 12 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3169 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- drupal/core (Packagist): affected from 6.0; fixed in 6.38\n- drupal/core (Packagist): affected from 6.0; fixed in 6.38\n- drupal/core (Packagist): affected from 7.0; fixed in 7.43\n- drupal/core (Packagist): affected from 7.0; fixed in 7.43\n- drupal/drupal (Packagist): affected from 6.0; fixed in 6.38\n- drupal/drupal (Packagist): affected from 6.0; fixed in 6.38\n- drupal/drupal (Packagist): affected from 7.0; fixed in 7.43\n- drupal/drupal (Packagist): affected from 7.0; fixed in 7.43\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3169/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3169/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-3169","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3169/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-3169","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-q3p9-8728-wq7x","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3169"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Drupal CMS","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can gain privileges in Drupal if custom code improperly calls user_save with explicit categories, requiring specific contributed or custom code 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Reflected file download vulnerability","id":"CVE-2016-3168"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2016-04-12","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can gain privileges in Drupal if custom code improperly calls user_save with explicit categories, requiring specific contributed or custom code 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