Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with high-privilege Drupal account
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DeliveryIdentify unguarded AI module route URLs
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ExploitSend direct HTTP request to restricted endpoint
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ExecutionBypass missing authorization check
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ImpactRead or modify AI module resources
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to already hold a high-privileged authenticated session within the target Drupal installation (PR:H per CVSS vector), meaning an anonymous or low-privileged user cannot exploit this vulnerability. Attack complexity is rated high (AC:H), indicating that additional conditions beyond a simple authenticated request must be met - likely specific route configurations or module states. The Drupal AI (Artificial Intelligence) contributed module must be installed and enabled on the target site. The scope is unchanged (S:U), so compromise is limited to the Drupal application itself. Factors that limit exploitation: the attacker must obtain or already possess high-privilege credentials, the module must be present and active, and the attack cannot be automated at scale (SSVC automatable=no). No user interaction is required once those prerequisites are satisfied. |
| Impact | All available signals consistently place this vulnerability in the low-priority tier. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 3.3 (Low), driven by PR:H (high privileges required) and AC:H (high attack complexity), which substantially constrains the exploitable population to users who already hold significant trust within the Drupal installation. EPSS at 0.14% (4th percentile) corroborates that exploitation in the wild is essentially unobserved. CISA SSVC confirms exploitation=none, automatable=no, and technical impact=partial - reinforcing that mass or automated exploitation is not viable. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public POC. The limited C:L/I:L impact means even a successful exploitation yields only marginal confidentiality or integrity gains. The 'Authentication Bypass' tag in the intelligence data could be misleading: the CVSS PR:H metric confirms an attacker must already hold high privileges, so this is authorization bypass within an authenticated session, not a bypass of the authentication gate itself. The primary real-world risk is an insider or compromised high-privilege account accessing AI module resources beyond their intended scope - a scenario already partially mitigated by requiring that level of access in the first place. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated Drupal user holding a high-privileged role - such as an administrator or a role granted elevated AI module permissions - manually navigates directly to an AI module endpoint URL that lacks an authorization check, bypassing the intended access boundary and reading or modifying AI-related resources they were not explicitly granted access to. No exploit tooling or POC exists at time of analysis, meaning exploitation requires deliberate manual effort and prior knowledge of the target URL paths. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jul 13, 2026
Forceful browsing exposure in Drupal's AI (Artificial Intelligence) contributed module permits high-privileged authenticated users to access protected resources without proper authorization checks, affecting versions 0.0.0-1.2.17, 1.3.0-1.3.8, and 1.4.0-1.4.3. The vulnerability stems from CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), where path-level access controls are not enforced on certain AI module endpoints, allowing an authenticated user with high privileges to traverse to unauthorized resources. No public exploit code exists, EPSS sits at 0.14% (4th percentile), and CISA SSVC confirms no active exploitation, placing this firmly in the low-urgency tier despite its network-accessible attack vector.
RemediationAI
The vendor has released patched versions addressing this vulnerability; site administrators should upgrade the Drupal AI module to version 1.2.17 (for sites on the 1.2.x branch), 1.3.8 (for the 1.3.x branch), or 1.4.3 (for the 1.4.x branch) per Drupal security advisory SA-contrib-2026-055 available at https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-055. Where immediate patching is not possible, a compensating control is to restrict access to the Drupal AI module's administrative and API routes using Drupal's core permission system or web server access controls, limiting those routes to only the roles that genuinely require them; note that this may disrupt legitimate AI module functionality for some roles. Additionally, auditing which high-privileged accounts exist on the installation and reducing their count reduces the effective exposure window given the PR:H requirement.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 2 packages in composer, euvd
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is the Drupal AI (Artificial Intelligence) contributed module, identified via CPE cpe:2.3:a:drupal:ai_(artificial_intelligence):*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. Drupal modules extend the core CMS and are invoked through Drupal's routing and access-control layer; CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) indicates that one or more routes or controller callbacks in this module fail to invoke Drupal's access-checking API before returning data, enabling a logged-in high-privileged principal to reach endpoints they are not entitled to by navigating directly to their URLs - a technique known as forceful browsing. The vulnerability does not require exploiting the authentication subsystem itself; the authentication tag in the intelligence data reflects the authorization bypass outcome rather than a true authentication failure. Because Drupal's access system is opt-in per route, a missing check silently omits enforcement rather than failing closed.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Network-accessible but PR:H and AC:H because exploitation requires a pre-existing high-privilege session and non-trivial knowledge of unguarded route paths; no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (drupal).
CVSS VectorVendor: drupal
Lifecycle Timeline
5DescriptionCVE.org
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Drupal AI (Artificial Intelligence) allows Forceful Browsing. This issue affects AI (Artificial Intelligence) versions: from 0.0.0 to 1.2.17, from 1.3.0 to 1.3.8, from 1.4.0 to 1.4.3.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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