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Improper Access Control

CVE-2015-7306

Medium
4.9/10

Summary

The CMS Updater module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.3 for Drupal does not properly check access permissions, which allows remote authenticated users to access and change settings by leveraging the "access administration pages" permission.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published