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URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

CVE-2018-16954

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Oracle WebCenter Interaction Portal 10.3.3. The login function of the portal is vulnerable to insecure redirection (also called an open redirect). The in_hi_redirect parameter is not validated by the application after a successful login. NOTE: this CVE is assigned by MITRE and isn't validated by Oracle because Oracle WebCenter Interaction Portal is out of support.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-601 - Open Redirect

An open redirect attack employs a URL parameter, HTML refresh tags, or a DOM based location change to exploit the trust of a vulnerable domain to direct the users to a malicious website. The attack could lead to higher severity vulnerabilities such as unauthorized access control, account takeover, XSS, and more.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published