CVE-2007-5593: Drupal

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

install.php in Drupal 5.x before 5.3, when the configured database server is not reachable, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that cause settings.php to be modified.

Affected products

• Drupal Drupal: from 5.0, before 5.3 (fixed in 5.3)
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 7 only

Published 2007-10-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.