Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-13311

High

Published: 09 January 2025

Published
09 January 2025
Modified
02 September 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0034 57.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-13311 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Allow All File Extensions For File Fields Project Allow All File Extensions For File Fields. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 43.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-13311 is a vulnerability in the Drupal module "Allow All File Extensions for file fields." This issue affects Allow All File Extensions for file fields: *.*.

The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N). An attacker with low privileges can exploit it over the network with low attack complexity, but it requires user interaction. Successful exploitation enables high impacts on confidentiality and integrity, with no availability impact.

Mitigation details are provided in the Drupal security advisory SA-CONTRIB-2024-075 at https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2024-075.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability in Drupal Allow All File Extensions for file fields.This issue affects Allow All File Extensions for file fields: *.*.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence
Adversaries may backdoor web servers with web shells to establish persistent access to systems.
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Why these techniques?

The Drupal module vulnerability allows arbitrary file extensions in uploads, enabling exploitation of public-facing web applications (T1190) and facilitating web shell deployment (T1100).

Affected Assets

allow all file extensions for file fields project
allow all file extensions for file fields
all versions

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Timely flaw remediation directly addresses CVE-2024-13311 by patching the vulnerable Drupal 'Allow All File Extensions' module as specified in SA-CONTRIB-2024-075.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Validates file uploads for proper extensions, MIME types, and content to block malicious files enabled by the unrestricted file extension allowance.

SI-9 Information Input Restrictions good match
prevent

Restricts file types accepted by Drupal file fields, countering the module's allowance of all extensions (*.*) that enables attacker uploads.

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