CVE-2017-18262

Summary

CVECVE-2017-18262
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-04-30 13:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-06-12 18:15:00 UTC
DescriptionBlackboard Learn (Since at least 17th of October 2017) has allowed Unvalidated Redirects on any signed-in user through its endpoints for handling Shibboleth logins, as demonstrated by a webapps/bb-auth-provider-shibboleth-BBLEARN/execute/shibbolethLogin?returnUrl= URI.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20 | CWE-601

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q2_2016 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q2_2017 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q4_2015 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q4_2016 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q4_2017 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q2_2016 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q2_2017 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q4_2015 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q4_2016 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn 9.1 q4_2017 All All
Application Blackboard Blackboard Learn All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Full Disclosure: Unvalidated Redirect in Shibboleth component of Blackboard Learn FULLDISC seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Blackboard Learn Open Redirect Flaw in Shibboleth Authentication Provider Lets Remote Users Redirect the Target User's Browser to an Arbitrary Site - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
ethan.pm/blackboard.txt MISC ethan.pm 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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