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Vulnerability details: VCID-9ss3-mvt3-8bem
Vulnerability ID VCID-9ss3-mvt3-8bem
Aliases GHSA-gxxj-g9v8-w28p
Summary Drupal core Arbitrary PHP code execution The Drupal project uses the PEAR Archive_Tar library. The PEAR Archive_Tar library has released a security update that impacts Drupal. For more information please see: CVE-2020-28948 CVE-2020-28949 Multiple vulnerabilities are possible if Drupal is configured to allow .tar, .tar.gz, .bz2, or .tlz file uploads and processes them. To mitigate this issue, prevent untrusted users from uploading .tar, .tar.gz, .bz2, or .tlz files.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gxxj-g9v8-w28p
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://github.com/drupal/core
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/drupal/core
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/core/2020-11-25.yaml
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/core/2020-11-25.yaml
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-013
generic_textual HIGH https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-013
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/drupal/core
https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/core/2020-11-25.yaml
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-013
GHSA-gxxj-g9v8-w28p https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gxxj-g9v8-w28p
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/drupal/core
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/drupal/core/2020-11-25.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

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low

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-013
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T12:52:00.959736+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/05/GHSA-gxxj-g9v8-w28p/GHSA-gxxj-g9v8-w28p.json 38.0.0