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CVE-2019-16645

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

An issue was discovered in Embedthis GoAhead 2.5.0. Certain pages (such as goform/login and config/log_off_page.htm) create links containing a hostname obtained from an arbitrary HTTP Host header sent by an attacker. This could potentially be used in a phishing attack.

Affected products

• EmbedThis GoAhead: 2.5.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154652/GoAhead-2.5.0-Host-Header-Injection.html
• https://github.com/Ramikan/Vulnerabilities/blob/master/GoAhead%20Web%20server%20HTTP%20Header%20Injection
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154652/GoAhead-2.5.0-Host-Header-Injection.html
• https://github.com/Ramikan/Vulnerabilities/blob/master/GoAhead%20Web%20server%20HTTP%20Header%20Injection

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