opf openproject up to 14.2.x redirect

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in opf openproject up to 14.2.x. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to redirect. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-41801. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in opf openproject up to 14.2.x and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a redirect vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-601. A web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a Redirect. This simplifies phishing attacks. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

OpenProject is open source project management software. Prior to version 14.3.0, using a forged HOST header in the default configuration of packaged installations and using the "Login required" setting, an attacker could redirect to a remote host to initiate a phishing attack against an OpenProject user's account. This vulnerability affects default packaged installation of OpenProject without any additional configuration or modules on Apache (such as mod_security, manually setting a host name, having a fallthrough VirtualHost). It might also affect other installations that did not take care to fix the HOST/X-Forwarded-Host headers. Version 14.3.0 includes stronger protections for the hostname from within the application using the HostAuthorization middleware of Rails to reject any requests with a host name that does not match the configured one. Also, all generated links by the application are now ensured to use the built-in hostname. Users who aren't able to upgrade immediately may use mod_security for Apache2 or manually fix the Host and X-Forwarded-Host headers in their proxying application before reaching the application server of OpenProject. Alternatively, they can manually apply the patch to opt-in to host header protections in previous versions of OpenProject.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-41801 since 07/22/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1204.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 14.3.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Project Management Software

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• opf

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• openproject

Version

• 14.0
• 14.1
• 14.2

Website

• Product: https://github.com/opf/openproject/

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