CVE detail

CVE-2015-9287 — CVE-2015-9287

Published 2019-05-13 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor cam · Product the_university_of_cambridge_web_authentication_system_apache_authentication_agent · Source nvd
CRITICAL
severity
CVSS-derived band
9.8
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0199
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
79.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

Directory Traversal was discovered in University of Cambridge mod_ucam_webauth before 2.0.2. The key identification field ("kid") of the IdP's HTTP response message ("WLS-Response") can be manipulated by an attacker. The "kid" field is not signed like the rest of the message, and manipulation is therefore trivial. The "kid" field should only ever represent an integer. However, it is possible to provide any string value. An attacker could use this to their advantage to force the application agent to load the RSA public key required for message integrity checking from an unintended location.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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