CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-6381

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A third party development library included with Drupal 8 development dependencies is vulnerable to remote code execution. This vulnerability is mitigated by the default .htaccess protection against PHP execution and the fact that Composer development dependencies aren't normally installed.

Risk Assessment

Organizations running a version of Drupal before 8.2.2 may be vulnerable to remote code execution, which could lead to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to remove the <siteroot>/vendor/phpunit directory from production deployments to ensure you are not vulnerable to this issue.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS