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CVE-2019-6986

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

SPARQL Injection in VIVO Vitro v1.10.0 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SPARQL via the uri parameter, leading to a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS), as demonstrated by crafted use of FILTER%20regex in a /individual?uri= request.

Affected products

• Duraspace Vitro: 1.10.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172838/VIVO-SPARQL-Injection.html
• https://github.com/kevinbackhouse/SecurityExploits/tree/0ec74459ac53685a7959ed58d580ef8abece3685/vivo-project
• https://github.com/vivo-project/Vitro/pull/111
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172838/VIVO-SPARQL-Injection.html
• https://github.com/kevinbackhouse/SecurityExploits/tree/0ec74459ac53685a7959ed58d580ef8abece3685/vivo-project
• https://github.com/vivo-project/Vitro/pull/111

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