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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Drupal 7.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that end a session via the user/logout URI

Published Mar 28, 2012

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Drupal 7.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that end a session via the user/logout URI. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue, by considering the "security benefit against platform complexity and performance impact" and concluding that a change to the logout behavior is not planned because "for most sites it is not worth the trade-off.

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Remediation

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References (5)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 28, 2012
Updated Sep 17, 2024
Reserved Mar 27, 2012
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a