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URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

CVE-2021-36191

Medium
5.4/10

Summary

A url redirection to untrusted site ('open redirect') in Fortinet FortiWeb version 6.4.1 and below, 6.3.15 and below allows attacker to use the device as proxy via crafted GET parameters in requests to error handlers

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • 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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  • Published