CVE-2017-6381 Drupal Remote code execution

What is CVE-2017-6381?

CVE-2017-6381 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Drupal Drupal, published on 16 Mar 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A 3rd party development library including with Drupal 8 development dependencies is vulnerable to remote code execution. This is mitigated by the default .htaccess protection against PHP execution, and the fact that Composer development dependencies aren't normal installed. You might be vulnerable to this if you are running a version of Drupal before 8.2.2. To be sure you aren't vulnerable, you can remove the <siteroot>/vendor/phpunit directory from your production deployments

Weakness: CWE-829

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6381?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including drupal/core and drupal/drupal. It affects 1 product.

Products include Drupal Drupal.

How do I fix CVE-2017-6381?

Upgrade drupal/core to 8.2.7 or later.

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

Is CVE-2017-6381 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6381 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Drupal Drupal

• CVE-2026-9082 Drupal Core SQL Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-13671 Drupal core Un-restricted Upload of File Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-6340 Drupal Core Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.1
• CVE-2009-3352 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-55636 Drupal core - Less critical - Gadget chain - SA-CORE-2024-006 Critical 9.8

All Drupal Drupal vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-rhx9-3qf7-r3j7, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6381.