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🛡️ CVE-2023-32068 — xwiki

🟡 CVSS 4.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-601 NVD
4.7
CVSS Score
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Description

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore Open Redirect vulnerability

Impact

It's possible to exploit well known parameters in XWiki URLs to perform redirection to untrusted site. This vulnerability was partially fixed in the past for XWiki 12.10.7 and 13.3RC1 but there is still the possibility to force specific URLs to skip some checks, e.g. using URLs like http:example.com in the parameter would allow the redirect.

Patches

The issue has now been patched against all patterns that we know about for performing redirect. It also performs a real URI parsing that should protect in most cases. This has been patched in XWiki 14.10.4 and 15.0.

Workarounds

The only workaround is to upgrade XWiki.

References

  • JIRA ticket: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20096
  • JIRA ticket about the improvment actually fixing the vulnerability: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20549
  • Previous advisory about open redirect: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jp55-vvmf-63mv

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Attribution

Thanks to Paulos Mesfin who originally reported the vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-32068 is classified as CWE-601: Open Redirect. A redirect target is taken from user input, so a trusted link can send the visitor to an attacker's site.

Affected software

CVE-2023-32068 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore (fixed in 14.10.4)
  • xwiki

Timeline and source

Published on 15 May 2023 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
jira.xwiki.org (Web)
jira.xwiki.org (Web)

Other advisories for this package

org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-601: Open Redirect) in other software:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 4.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-601
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-05-15
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2023-11-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-oldcore — 14.10.4
xwiki — —

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