How severe is CVE-2018-7602?

CVE-2018-7602 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.1 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 99.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2018-7602: Drupal core - Highly critical

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Drupal Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-04-13

Remediation due

2022-05-04

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7602

Description

A remote code execution vulnerability exists within multiple subsystems of Drupal 7.x and 8.x. This potentially allows attackers to exploit multiple attack vectors on a Drupal site, which could result in the site being compromised. This vulnerability is related to Drupal core - Highly critical - Remote Code Execution - SA-CORE-2018-002. Both SA-CORE-2018-002 and this vulnerability are being exploited in the wild.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.1 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Drupal	core	unspecified to <7.59 unspecified to <8.5.3 unspecified to <8.4.8

References

7 Links

Vendor advisories

DSA-4180

Exploits & PoCs

Mailing lists

[debian-lts-announce] 20180426 [SECURITY] [DLA 1365-1] drupal7 security update

Vulnerability databases

Other references

https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-004

Record Details

Published

2018-07-19

Last updated

2026-10-01

Assigner (CNA)

drupal

Credited to

David Rothstein; Alex Pott; Heine Deelstra; Jasper Mattsson; David Rothstein; xjm; Samuel Mortenson; Alex Pott; Lee Rowlands; Heine Deelstra; Pere Orga; Peter Wolanin; Tim Plunkett; Michael Hess; Nate Lampton; Jasper Mattsson; Neil Drumm; Cash Williams; Daniel Wehner

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