Security Alert (A21-07-15): Vulnerability in Drupal

Description:

Drupal has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the pear Archive_Tar library. Systems deployed with contrib or custom code that use the library to extract tar archives are affected. A remote attacker may upload a maliciously crafted file to a vulnerable system to exploit the vulnerability.

Please note that Drupal 8 prior to version 8.9.x and Drupal 9 prior to version 9.1.x have reached End-Of-Life (EOL). No security updates will be provided after that. Users should arrange upgrading the Drupal to supported versions or migrating to other supported technology.

Affected Systems:

• Drupal version 7.x
• Drupal version 8.9.x
• Drupal version 9.1.x
• Drupal version 9.2.x

Impact:

Successful exploitation could allow attacker to take control of an affected system.

Recommendation:

The product vendor has released patches to address the issues.

• Drupal 7.82
  https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.82
• Drupal 8.9.17
  https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/8.9.17
• Drupal 9.1.11
  https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/9.1.11
• Drupal 9.2.2
  https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/9.2.2

More Information:

• https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-004
• https://www.drupal.org/core/release-cycle-overview
• https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/07/22/drupal-releases-security-updates
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32610