CVE-2020-36845 (GCVE-0-2020-36845)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-20 00:00
Modified
2025-04-21 02:18
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-601 - URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
Summary
The KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training application before 2020-01-10 contains a redirect function that does not validate the destination URL before redirecting. The response has a SCRIPT element that sets window.location.href to an arbitrary https URL.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.doyler.net/security-not-included/knowbe4-vulnerabilitiesExploit
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Version: 0   < 2020-01-10
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