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CVE-2014-1985
Open redirect vulnerability in the redirect_back_or_default function in app/controllers/application_controller.rb in Redmine before 2.4.5…
Medium5.8EPSS 4.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- jpcert
Description
Open redirect vulnerability in the redirect_back_or_default function in app/controllers/application_controller.rb in Redmine before 2.4.5 and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the back url (back_url parameter).
Timeline
ID reserved
By jpcert
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.1% · top 9.3% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- JVNDB-2014-000041 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDBx_transferred
- http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- JVN#93004610 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
- https://github.com/redmine/redmine/commit/7567c3d8b21fe67e5f04e6839c1fce061600f2f3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140410 Re: CVE request: redmine open redirector (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 66674 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Security_Advisories (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 57524 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Changelog_2_4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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