Security advisory
In Drupal 8 prior to 8.3.7; When using the REST API, users without the correct permission can post comments via REST that are approved even if the user does not have permission to post approved comments. This issue only affects sites that have the RESTful Web Services (rest) module enabled, the comment entity REST resource enabled, and where an attacker can access a user account on the site with permissions to post comments, or where anonymous users can post comments.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-6924
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Drupal 8 prior to 8.3.7; When using the REST API, users without the correct permission can post comments via REST that are approved even if the user does not have permission to post approved comments. This issue only affects sites that have the RESTful Web Services (rest) module enabled, the comment entity REST resource enabled, and where an attacker can access a user account on the site with permissions to post comments, or where anonymous users can post comments.
osv:CVE-2017-6924
Complete source record
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