🛡️ CVE-2014-9509 — cms

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Typo3 Vulnerable to Cache Poisoning

Problem Description: A request URL with arbitrary arguments, but still pointing to the home page of a TYPO3 installation can be cached if the configuration option config.prefixLocalAnchors is used with the values "all" or "cached". The impact of this vulnerability is that unfamiliar looking links to the home page can end up in the cache, which leads to a reload of the page in the browser when section links are followed by web page visitors, instead of just directly jumping to the requested section of the page. TYPO3 versions 4.6.x and higher are only affected if the homepage is not a shortcut to a different page.

Solution: Removing the configuration options config.prefixLocalAnchors (and optionally also config.baseUrl) in favor of config.absRefPrefix

Credits: Thanks to Gernot Leitgab who discovered and reported the vulnerability.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-9509 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2014-9509 is recorded against 1 package.

  • typo3/cms (from 6.1.0 up to 6.1.13)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 29 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
typo3.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-11-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
typo3/cms 6.1.0 6.1.13

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