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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-6924

This issue only affects sites that have the RESTful Web Services (rest) module enabled, the comment entity REST resource enabled, and where an attacker can access a user account on the site with permissions to post comments, or where anonymous users can…

HIGH 7.4EPSS 2.10%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.10%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

In Drupal 8 prior to 8.3.7; When using the REST API, users without the correct permission can post comments via REST that are approved even if the user does not have permission to post approved comments. This issue only affects sites that have the RESTful Web Services (rest) module enabled, the comment entity REST resource enabled, and where an attacker can access a user account on the site with permissions to post comments, or where anonymous users can post comments.

CVSS 3.0
7.4 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
2.10% probability · 82th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-269
Affected
drupal/drupal
Source
mlhess@drupal.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 2.10%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 2.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.