Vulnerability in Drupal

CVE-2015-2559

Drupal 6.x before 6.35 and 7.x before 7.35 allows remote authenticated users to reset the password of other accounts by leveraging an account with the same password hash as another account and a crafted password reset URL.

Published 2015-03-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (75.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Drupal
Debian Linux — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3200 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/73219 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2015-001 (Vendor Advisory)