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CVE-2016-9452

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9452 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Drupal 8.x before version 8.2.3, specifically within its transliterate mechanism. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious URL, leading to a denial of service. While rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), indicating a high impact on availability with low attack complexity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:8.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:8.0.0:alpha10:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:8.0.0:alpha11:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:8.0.0:alpha12:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:8.0.0:alpha13:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0172 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: drupal/coreFixed in: 8.2.3
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: drupal/drupalFixed in: 8.2.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-jpj8-49hr-wcwvmedium

Drupal Denial of service via transliterate mechanism

May 17, 2022

References

drupal.org / SA-CORE-2016-005
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94367
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry