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URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

CVE-2019-13175

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

Read the Docs before 3.5.1 has an Open Redirect if certain user-defined redirects are used. This affects private instances of Read the Docs (in addition to the public readthedocs.org web sites).

  • 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