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medium 6.1

CVE-2019-19703 json

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect) in Ktor

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-xwgq-pcqx-hpmv , EUVD-2020-0322

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 51%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Ktor through 1.2.6, the client resends data from the HTTP Authorization header to a redirect location.

Patch / fix

  • maven io.ktor:ktor-client-core 1.3.0

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Exploit prediction

0.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/issues/1467 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven io.ktor:ktor-client-core
<1.3.0
1.3.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site

References

Sources

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