When using the REST API, users without the correct permission could post comments via REST that were approved even if the user did not have permission to post approved comments.
This issue only affected sites that have the RESTful Web Services (rest) module enabled, the comment entity REST resource enabled, and where an attacker could access a user account on the site with permissions to post comments, or where anonymous users could post comments.
Part of security release SA-CORE-2017-004
This vulnerability affects the following application versions:
- Drupal 8.0.0
- Drupal 8.0.1
- Drupal 8.0.2
- Drupal 8.0.3
- Drupal 8.0.4
- Drupal 8.0.5
- Drupal 8.0.6
- Drupal 8.1.0
- Drupal 8.1.1
- Drupal 8.1.2
- Drupal 8.1.3
- Drupal 8.1.4
- Drupal 8.1.5
- Drupal 8.1.6
- Drupal 8.1.7
- Drupal 8.1.8
- Drupal 8.1.9
- Drupal 8.1.10
- Drupal 8.2.0
- Drupal 8.2.1
- Drupal 8.2.2
- Drupal 8.2.3
- Drupal 8.2.4
- Drupal 8.2.5
- Drupal 8.2.6
- Drupal 8.2.7
- Drupal 8.2.8
- Drupal 8.3.0
- Drupal 8.3.1
- Drupal 8.3.2
- Drupal 8.3.3
- Drupal 8.3.4
- Drupal 8.3.5
- Drupal 8.3.6