Drupal 7.x < 7.20 On-Demand Image Derivative Generation Handling Resource Exhaustion DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64990

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Synopsis

The remote web server is running a PHP application that is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The remote web server is running a version of Drupal that is 7.x prior to 7.20. It is, therefore, affected by a flaw during the handling of on-demand generation of image derivatives. A remote attacker, using a large number of derivative requests, could exploit this to cause a denial of service by filling up server disk space and causing a very high CPU load.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.20 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64990

File Name: drupal_7_20.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 3/4/2013

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode, Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:drupal:drupal

Required KB Items: www/PHP, installed_sw/Drupal, Settings/ParanoidReport

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0316

BID: 58069

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