CVE-2014-5020
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.9
Description
The File module in Drupal 7.x before 7.29 does not properly check permissions to view files, which allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to bypass intended restrictions and read files by attaching the file to content with a file field.
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 withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| drupal | drupal | 7.0 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.1 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.2 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.3 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.4 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.5 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.6 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.7 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.8 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.9 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.10 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.11 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.12 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.13 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.14 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.15 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.16 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.17 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.18 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.19 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.20 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.21 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.22 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.23 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.24 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.25 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.26 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.27 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.28 | |
| drupal | drupal | 7.x-dev | |
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.