Views – Less Critical – Access Bypass – SA-CONTRIB-2016-036

Description

An access bypass vulnerability exists in the Views module, where users without the “View content count” permission can see the number of hits collected by the Statistics module for results in the view.

This issue is mitigated by the fact that the view must be configured to show a “Content statistics” field, such as “Total views”, “Views today” or “Last visit”.

The same vulnerability exists in the Drupal 8 core Views module SA-CORE-2016-002

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • A CVE identifier will be requested, and added upon issuance, in accordance with Drupal Security Team processes.

Versions affected

  • Views 7.x-3.x versions prior to 7.x-3.14.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Views module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Views project page.

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Fixed by

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Contact and More Information

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