Drupal core - Critical - Drupal core - Critical - Third-party libraries - SA-CORE-2021-004

Project: Drupal core
Date: 2021-July-21
Security risk: Critical 15∕25
Vulnerability: Drupal core - Critical - Third-party libraries
CVE IDs: CVE-2021-32610

Description

The Drupal project uses the pear Archive_Tar library, which has released a security update that impacts Drupal.

The vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that Drupal core's use of the Archive_Tar library is not vulnerable, as it does not permit symlinks.

Exploitation may be possible if contrib or custom code uses the library to extract tar archives (for example .tar, .tar.gz, .bz2, or .tlz) which come from a potentially untrusted source.

Solution

Install the latest version:

If you are using Drupal 9.2, update to Drupal 9.2.2.
If you are using Drupal 9.1, update to Drupal 9.1.11.
If you are using Drupal 8.9, update to Drupal 8.9.17.
If you are using Drupal 7, update to Drupal 7.82.

Versions of Drupal 8 prior to 8.9.x and versions of Drupal 9 prior to 9.1.x are end-of-life and do not receive security coverage.