CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-16645
8.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- 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 configurations
• embedthis goahead 2.5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154652/GoAhead-2.5.0-Host-Header-Injection.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://github.com/Ramikan/Vulnerabilities/blob/master/GoAhead%20Web%20server%20HTTP%20Header%20Injection Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154652/GoAhead-2.5.0-Host-Header-Injection.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://github.com/Ramikan/Vulnerabilities/blob/master/GoAhead%20Web%20server%20HTTP%20Header%20Injection Exploit, Third Party Advisory