VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4554

medium
Published 2012-11-11 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

The OpenID module in Drupal 7.x before 7.16 allows remote OpenID servers to read arbitrary files via a crafted DOCTYPE declaration in an XRDS file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_gather/drupal_openid_xxe rank 300
Drupal OpenID External Entity Injection
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
drupal drupaldrupal7.0
drupal drupaldrupal7.1
drupal drupaldrupal7.2
drupal drupaldrupal7.3
drupal drupaldrupal7.4
drupal drupaldrupal7.5
drupal drupaldrupal7.6
drupal drupaldrupal7.7
drupal drupaldrupal7.8
drupal drupaldrupal7.9
drupal drupaldrupal7.10
drupal drupaldrupal7.11
drupal drupaldrupal7.12
drupal drupaldrupal7.13
drupal drupaldrupal7.14
drupal drupaldrupal7.15

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.