CVE-2014-4172

Summary

CVECVE-2014-4172
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-24 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:20:00 UTC
DescriptionA URL parameter injection vulnerability was found in the back-channel ticket validation step of the CAS protocol in Jasig Java CAS Client before 3.3.2, .NET CAS Client before 1.0.2, and phpCAS before 1.3.3 that allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) service parameter to validation/AbstractUrlBasedTicketValidator.java or (2) pgtUrl parameter to validation/Cas20ServiceTicketValidator.java.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apereo .net Cas Client All All All All
Application Apereo .net Cas Client All All All All
Application Apereo Java Cas Client All All All All
Application Apereo Java Cas Client All All All All
Application Apereo Phpcas All All All All
Application Apereo Phpcas All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 20 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 20 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
phpCAS/ChangeLog at master · apereo/phpCAS · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3017-1 php-cas MISC www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
#759718 - php-cas needs to urlencode all tickets (CVE-2014-4172) - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[cas-user] CAS Client Security Vulnerability CVE-2014-4172 www.mail-archive.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: cas-client-3.3.3-1.fc20 MISC lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange MISC exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
URL Encode ticket parameter when presented for validation. by serac · Pull Request #125 · apereo/phpCAS · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
NETC-60 URL encode ticket parameter value. · apereo/dotnet-cas-client@f0e0300 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
1131350 – (CVE-2014-4172) CVE-2014-4172 cas-client: Bypass of security constraints via URL parameter injection MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[cas-user] CAS Client Security Vulnerability CVE-2014-4172 MISC www.mail-archive.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CASC-228 URL Encode Paramaters Passed to Server via Validate · apereo/java-cas-client@ae37092 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[CASC-228] CVE-2014-4172 URL Encode Parameters Passed to Validate Endpoints - Jira MISC issues.jasig.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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