VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-16645

CVSS score8.6 HIGH
EPSS probability8.18%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-09-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Description

An issue was discovered in Embedthis GoAhead 2.5.0. Certain pages (such as goform/login and config/log_off_page.htm) create links containing a hostname obtained from an arbitrary HTTP Host header sent by an attacker. This could potentially be used in a phishing attack.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Primary references