CVE-2014-4172
A URL parameter injection vulnerability was found in the back-channel ticket validation step of the CAS protocol in Jasig Java CAS Client…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 6.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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 | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.1% · top 6.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.jasig.cas:cas-clientGHSA-9fc5-q25c-r2wr (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetDotNetCasClientGHSA-9fc5-q25c-r2wr (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistjasig/phpcasGHSA-9fc5-q25c-r2wr (opens in a new tab)
References
11
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131350 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.mail-archive.com/cas-user%40lists.jasig.org/msg17338.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759718 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/Jasig/dotnet-cas-client/commit/f0e030014fb7a39e5f38469f43199dc590fd0e8d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/Jasig/java-cas-client/commit/ae37092100c8eaec610dab6d83e5e05a8ee58814 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/Jasig/phpCAS/blob/master/docs/ChangeLog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/Jasig/phpCAS/pull/125 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://issues.jasig.org/browse/CASC-228 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3017.en.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137182.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95673 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3362 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9fc5-q25c-r2wr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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