Drupal Core announced multiple critical vulnerabilities
that impact some of its configurations for
versions: 8.8.x-dev, 8.7.x-dev, and 7.x-dev.
The Drupal project uses the
third-party library Archive_Tar,
which released a security update – SA-CORE-2019-012, according to a Dec. 18
advisory.
Multiple vulnerabilities are
possible if Drupal is configured to allow .tar, .tar.gz, .bz2 or .tlz file
uploads and processes them.
The latest versions of Drupal
update Archive_Tar to 1.4.9 to mitigate the file processing
vulnerabilities.
Drupal
also advises users to install the latest
versions:
In
addition, updating to the Drupal 7.x core release will apply the fixes for all the
below:
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