CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Drupal vulnerability
Recorded: May 26, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) mandated that U.S. government agencies secure their systems against an actively exploited SQL injection vulnerability within the Drupal content management system (CMS). This directive required Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to patch their affected systems by midnight on Wednesday, May 27, pursuant to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-9082, was discovered by Google/Mandiant researcher Michael Maturi in Drupal's database abstraction API. The security flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL injection on sites powered by PostgreSQL through specially crafted requests, even without prior authentication. Successfully exploiting this vulnerability carries severe potential consequences, including information disclosure, privilege escalation, and remote code execution. The Drupal security team had classified this flaw as "highly critical" prior to releasing patches, confirming that exploitation attempts had already been observed in the wild. The scale of the threat has been significant; cybersecurity firm Imperva reported observing over 15,000 attack attempts targeting almost 6,000 individual sites across 65 countries since the release of the vulnerability. These attacks have disproportionately targeted Gaming and Financial Services sites, accounting for nearly fifty percent of all observed attacks. Furthermore, the Internet security watchdog group Shadowserver monitors nearly 670 unpatched Drupal installations exposed online, most of which are located in North America and Europe. Historically, CISA has previously flagged five Drupal vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild, two of which were also leveraged in ransomware attacks. In response to this threat, CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. Beyond the federal mandate, CISA strongly urged all organizations, including the private sector, to prioritize the timely remediation of KEV Catalog vulnerabilities as part of their vulnerability management practices to reduce exposure to cyberattacks. The agency advised organizations to apply vendor-specific mitigations, adhere to applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue the use of the affected product if appropriate mitigations cannot be implemented. |