What is CVE-2018-8937?

CVE-2018-8937 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Audit, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-03-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-8937?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Open Redirect in Open-Audit

CVE-2018-8937

An issue was discovered in Open-AudIT Professional 2.1. It is possible to inject a malicious payload in the redirect_url parameter to the /login URI to trigger an open redirect. A "data:text/html;base64," payload can be used with JavaScript code.

Vulnerability class: Open Redirect

EPSS: 0.007 (49.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Open-audit — versions 2.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-601 — URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect)

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-8937?: CVE-2018-8937 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Audit, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-03-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-8937?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.