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Drupal Releases Patch for DOS Vulnerability - 20240119002

Overview

Drupal have released a patch for a moderately critical vulnerability in Drupal core. The vulnerability impacts the comment module, an attacker could make comment reply requests that would trigger a denial of service (DOS).

Sites that do not use the Comment module are not affected.

What is the vulnerability?

The comment module may allow an attacker to abuse a vulnerability that would result in a denial of service. The vulnerability only affects Drupal instances that have the comment module enabled. As of writing there is no CVE or CVSS score associated with the vulnerability.

What is vulnerable?

The following products and versions are affected:

  • Drupal 8.0 to 10.1.7 (inclusive)
  • Drupal 10.2 to 10.2.1 (inclusive)

What has been observed?

There is no evidence of exploitation affecting Western Australian Government networks at the time of publishing.

Recommendation

The WA SOC recommends administrators apply the solutions as per vendor instructions to all affected devices within expected timeframe of 2 weeks: