URL Parameter Injection Affecting org.jasig.cas:cas-client-core package, versions [,3.3.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.74% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGJASIGCAS-30104
  • published25 Dec 2016
  • disclosed25 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Dec 2016

CVE-2014-4172  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.jasig.cas:cas-client-core to version 3.3.2 or higher.

Overview

org.jasig.cas:cas-client-core is a Java CAS client.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to URL Parameter Injection. It was found that URL encoding used in the back-channel ticket validation of the JA-SIG CAS client was improper. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to bypass security constraints by injecting URL parameters

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1