CWE-601 1575 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

Overview

CWE-601 (URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a redirect.

Background details

Extended context from the CWE catalog (rendered from MITRE XHTML).

Phishing is a general term for deceptive attempts to coerce private information from users that will be used for identity theft.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined
technology Web Based Undetermined
technology Web Server Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-8284 2026-07-21 URL redirection to untrusted site ('open redirect') vulnerability in Universal Software Inc. FlexCity allows Input Data Manipulation. This issue affects FlexCity: from 5.536.0 through 11052026.
CVE-2026-16336 2026-07-21 A vulnerability was found in trinodb trino 481. Affected is an unknown function of the file core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/server/ExternalUriInfo.java of the component OAuth2/OIDC. Performing …
CVE-2026-63768 2026-07-20 cal.diy through 6.2.0 contains an open redirect vulnerability in the conferencing OAuth callback endpoint that allows attackers to redirect users to arbitrary URLs by crafting malicious state paramete…
CVE-2026-61901 2026-07-20 The Joomla extension Hikashop is vulnerable to an open redirect.
CVE-2026-32824 2026-07-20 dataCycle is a data management system for centrally storing, managing, searching, finding, and distributing data. In dataCycle-CORE, the module handling core processing and framework rules, before and…
CVE-2026-7364 2026-07-17 IBM Verify Identity Access 11.0 through 11.0.2 and IBM Security Verify Access 10.0 through 10.0.9.1 and IBM Verify Identity Access Container 11.0 through 11.0.2 and IBM Security Verify Access Containe…
CVE-2026-15093 2026-07-17 IBM Engineering AI Hub 1.0.0, 1.1.0, and 1.2.0 could allow a remote attacker to redirect users to malicious websites due to improper validation of user-supplied URLs.
CVE-2026-63094 2026-07-17 SigNoz through 0.133.0 contains an open redirect vulnerability in the SSO authentication flow that allows unauthenticated attackers to steal session tokens from any user on instances configured with G…
CVE-2026-12379 2026-07-16 An Open Redirect vulnerability (CWE-601) exists in the OAuth/OIDC authentication implementation of the Axivion Dashboard. The login flow did not properly restrict the post-authentication redirect to t…
CVE-2026-33213 2026-07-15 Redash is a package for data visualization and sharing. From 5.0.2 to 26.3.0, the get_next_path() function in Redash's authentication module stripped the scheme and netloc from user-supplied next para…
CVE-2026-61451 2026-07-15 The Grav API plugin (grav-plugin-api) before 1.0.4 does not validate the origin of the client-supplied admin_base_url field in the POST /api/v1/auth/forgot-password endpoint. The sanitizeHttpUrl() fun…
CVE-2026-48784 2026-07-14 Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Prior to 5.4.53, 6.4.41, 7.4.13, and 8.0.13, UrlGenerator::doGenerate() used strtr() dot-segment encod…
CVE-2026-48000 2026-07-14 Adobe Commerce is affected by an Improper Redirect (Open Redirect) vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. An attacker could construct a malicious URL that redirects a victim to …
CVE-2026-45065 2026-07-14 Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Prior to 5.4.52, 6.4.40, 7.4.12, and 8.0.12, UrlGenerator validates route parameters against a pattern…
CVE-2026-14902 2026-07-14 An open redirect in Ivanti Xtraction before version 2026.2.1 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs.
CVE-2026-44745 2026-07-13 SAP Approuter does not properly validate incoming request headers during the OAuth2 login flow under certain configurations. This allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to craft a malicious link wh…
CVE-2026-55806 2026-07-10 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in Drupal Drupal core allows Content Spoofing. This issue affects Drupal core versions: from 0.0.0 to 10.5.12, from 10.6.0 to 10.6.11,…
CVE-2026-55461 2026-07-10 Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.6.2, the user edit flow stores url()->previous() from the attacker-controlled Referer header into Laravel’s intended URL session value and…
CVE-2026-59180 2026-07-10 Apprise is an open source library which allows you to send a notification to almost all of the most popular notification services available. Prior to 1.11.0, Apprise HTTP-based notification plugins an…
CVE-2026-55590 2026-07-09 CakePHP Authentication is an authentication plugin for CakePHP that can also be used in PSR-7 based applications. Prior to 2.11.1, 3.3.6, and 4.1.1, the getLoginRedirect() method contains a weakness t…

Previous names

  • Unsafe URL Redirection (2008-04-11)
  • URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (2008-09-09)
  • URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (aka 'Open Redirect') (2009-05-27)

Content submission

Name
Anonymous Tool Vendor (under NDA)
Date
2007-05-07
Version
Draft 6

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Alternate_Terms, Background_Details, Description, Detection_Factors, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Name, Relationships, Observed_Example, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-10-03 CWE Content Team 1.1 updated References and Observed_Examples
2008-10-14 CWE Content Team 1.0.1 updated Alternate_Terms, Observed_Examples, References
2009-03-10 CWE Content Team 1.3 updated Relationships
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Name
2009-12-28 CWE Content Team 1.7 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Detection_Factors, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Potential_Mitigations
2010-02-16 CWE Content Team 1.8 updated Applicable_Platforms, Common_Consequences, Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2010-04-05 CWE Content Team 1.8.1 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2010-06-21 CWE Content Team 1.9 updated Common_Consequences, Potential_Mitigations, References, Relationships
2010-09-27 CWE Content Team 1.10 updated Potential_Mitigations
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2011-06-27 CWE Content Team 2.0 updated Relationships
2011-09-13 CWE Content Team 2.1 updated Potential_Mitigations, References
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated References, Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2015-12-07 CWE Content Team 2.9 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Likelihood_of_Exploit, Modes_of_Introduction, References, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Relationships, Type
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Potential_Mitigations, Relationships
2020-06-25 CWE Content Team 4.1 updated Potential_Mitigations
2021-10-28 CWE Content Team 4.6 updated Relationships
2022-04-28 CWE Content Team 4.7 updated Relationships
2022-10-13 CWE Content Team 4.9 updated Observed_Examples
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Description, Detection_Factors, References, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2024-02-29 CWE Content Team 4.14 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2024-11-19 CWE Content Team 4.16 updated Alternate_Terms, Common_Consequences, Description, Diagram, Other_Notes
2025-09-09 CWE Content Team 4.18 updated Alternate_Terms, Common_Consequences, Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, References
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities

Contributions

Type Name Date Comment
Content Michal Biesiada 2023-11-25 suggested that CWE include drive-by downloads and contributed references
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