CVE-2024-11941 Drupal core - Moderately critical - Denial of Service - SA-CORE-2024-001

High 7.5 Published Updated

An excessive allocation flaw in Drupal core allows attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering resource exhaustion.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-11941?

CVE-2024-11941 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Drupal Drupal, published on 5 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in Drupal Core allows Excessive Allocation.This issue affects Drupal Core: from 10.2.0 before 10.2.2, from 10.1.0 before 10.1.8.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11941?

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

PackageAffectedFixed in
drupal/core PackagistFrom 10.1.010.1.8
drupal/core PackagistFrom 10.1.010.1.8
drupal/core PackagistFrom 10.2.010.2.2
drupal/core PackagistFrom 10.2.010.2.2
drupal/core PackagistFrom 8.0.010.1.8, 10.2.2
drupal BitnamiFrom 8.0.010.2.4

Products include Drupal Drupal.

How do I fix CVE-2024-11941?

Upgrade drupal/core to a fixed version for your release line: 10.1.8 or 10.2.2.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-11941 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11941 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as BIT-drupal-2024-11941, DRUPAL-CORE-2024-001, GHSA-xq54-x54m-vcpx, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-11941.

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