drupal drupal CVE-2020-13671 vulnerability in Drupal and Other Products
Published on November 20, 2020

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Drupal core does not properly sanitize certain filenames on uploaded files, which can lead to files being interpreted as the incorrect extension and served as the wrong MIME type or executed as PHP for certain hosting configurations. This issue affects: Drupal Drupal Core 9.0 versions prior to 9.0.8, 8.9 versions prior to 8.9.9, 8.8 versions prior to 8.8.11, and 7 versions prior to 7.74.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Drupal core Un-restricted Upload of File vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Improper sanitization in the extension file names is present in Drupal core.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by July 18, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2020-13671 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is an Unrestricted File Upload Vulnerability?

The software allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment.

CVE-2020-13671 has been classified to as an Unrestricted File Upload vulnerability or weakness.


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Affected Versions

Drupal Core:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
4.50%
Percentile
88.95%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.