What is CVE-2020-21998?

CVE-2020-21998 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Homeautomation Project, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2021-04-27.

How severe is CVE-2020-21998?

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

Open Redirect in Homeautomation Project

CVE-2020-21998

In HomeAutomation 3.3.2 input passed via the 'redirect' GET parameter in 'api.php' script is not properly verified before being used to redirect users. This can be exploited to redirect a user to an arbitrary website e.g. when a user clicks a specially crafted link to the affected script hosted on a trusted domain.

Vulnerability class: Open Redirect

EPSS: 0.013 (67.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Homeautomation_project Homeautomation — versions 3.3.2
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)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-21998?: CVE-2020-21998 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Homeautomation Project, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2021-04-27.
How severe is CVE-2020-21998?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.