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

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

• CVE-2016-6212

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:

• If you use the Views module for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to Views 7.x-3.14

Also see the Views project page.

Reported by

• Nickolay Leshchev

Fixed by

• Nathaniel Catchpole of the Drupal Security Team
• Greg Knaddison of the Drupal Security Team
• Nickolay Leshchev
• Stefan Ruijsenaars of the Drupal Security Team
• David Snopek of the Drupal Security Team
• Daniel Wehner

Coordinated by

• xjm of the Drupal Security Team
• Michael Hess of the Drupal Security Team
• Klaus Purer of the Drupal Security Team
• Stefan Ruijsenaars of the Drupal Security Team