CVE-2012-4487 (GCVE-0-2012-4487)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-11-02 15:00
Modified
2024-09-16 22:40
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The Subuser module before 6.x-1.8 for Drupal does not properly check "switch subuser" permissions, which allows remote authenticated parent users to change their role by switching to a subuser they created.
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