CVE-2014-1985

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Open redirect vulnerability in the redirect_back_or_default function in app/controllers/application_controller.rb in Redmine before 2.4.5 and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the back url (back_url parameter).

Affected products

Redmine: through 2.4.4; 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.5.0

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN93004610/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2014/JVNDB-2014-000041.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/84
http://secunia.com/advisories/57524
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Changelog
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Changelog_2_4
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Security_Advisories
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66674
https://github.com/redmine/redmine/commit/7567c3d8b21fe67e5f04e6839c1fce061600f2f3
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN93004610/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2014/JVNDB-2014-000041.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/84

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