Bug 1774722 (CVE-2019-17673)

Summary: CVE-2019-17673 wordpress: JSON request cache poisoning
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: fedora, kevin
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Bug Depends On: 1775738, 1775739, 1775740    
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-20 19:25:20 UTC
WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to poisoning of the cache of JSON GET requests because certain requests lack a Vary: Origin header.


Reference:
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9911

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/b224c251adfa16a5f84074a3c0886270c9df38de

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-22 17:07:31 UTC
Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1775739]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1775740]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1775738]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-11-22 19:04:49 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.