Open Redirect Affecting pki-deps:10.6/xml-commons-apis package, versions <0:1.4.01-25.module_el8.5.0+150+5f0dbea0


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
89.2% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX8-PKIDEPS-5619855
  • published28 May 2023
  • disclosed18 Jun 2019

Introduced: 18 Jun 2019

CVE-2018-11784  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-601  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:8 pki-deps:10.6/xml-commons-apis to version 0:1.4.01-25.module_el8.5.0+150+5f0dbea0 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2019:1529.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pki-deps:10.6/xml-commons-apis package and not the pki-deps:10.6/xml-commons-apis package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.11, 8.5.0 to 8.5.33 and 7.0.23 to 7.0.90 returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.

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