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URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

CVE-2022-26950

Severity Medium
Score 6.1/10

Summary

Archer 6.x through 6.9 P2 (6.9.0.2) is affected by an open redirect vulnerability. A remote unprivileged attacker may potentially redirect legitimate users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks. The attacker could then steal the victims' credentials and silently authenticate them to the Archer application without the victims realizing an attack occurred.

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  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
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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