Command Injection in VIVO Vitro

Also known as GHSA-hgq9-q8g2-3jmg

Published 7 y ago 2019-01-28 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

3.0%

percentile 87%

Public exploits

none known

SPARQL Injection in VIVO Vitro v1.10.0 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SPARQL via the uri parameter, leading to a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS), as demonstrated by crafted use of FILTER%20regex in a /individual?uri= request.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.02% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	5.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`
GitHub	3.0	7.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
maven	`org.vivoweb:vitro-project`	<1.11.0	1.11.0

Classification

Weakness

CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

github.com /kevinbackhouse/SecurityExploits/tree/0ec74459ac53685a7959ed58d580ef8abece3685/vivo-projec · x_transferred
github.com /vivo-project/Vitro/pull/111 · x_transferred
packetstormsecurity.com /files/172838/VIVO-SPARQL-Injection.html · x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6986 · advisory
github.com /vivo-project/Vitro/pull/111/commits/248ef19107a5ac6f86304fd8f3bc75f3787f8d49 · web
github.com /vivo-project/Vitro · package
jira.duraspace.org /browse/VIVO-1697 · web

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2019-6986
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-hgq9-q8g2-3jmg
NVD: CVE-2019-6986

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