# CVE-2019-14860: Misconfiguration in syndesis

> An attacker can exploit overly permissive CORS settings to conduct phishing attacks and access unauthorized information in Syndesis.

- **Severity:** High 7.4 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Nov 2019
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xw65-g8p2-hc6q

## What is CVE-2019-14860?

CVE-2019-14860 is a high-severity vulnerability in [UNKNOWN] syndesis, published on 8 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

It was found that the Syndesis configuration for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing was set to allow all origins. An attacker could use this lack of protection to conduct phishing attacks and further access unauthorized information.

Weakness: CWE-942 (Permissive Cross-domain Security Policy with Untrusted Domains)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14860?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Redhat Fuse, Redhat Syndesis.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-14860?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-14860 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-14860 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14860 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in [UNKNOWN] syndesis

- [CVE-2026-41731](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-41731/): In Spring for Apache Kafka, overly broad trusted-package matching in header mappers exposes JDK classes to deserialization (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2021-3690](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3690/): Undertow vulnerable to memory exhaustion due to buffer leak (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-57849](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-57849/): Fuse: privilege escalation via excessive /etc/passwd permissions (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2020-10688](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10688/): Cross-site scripting in RESTEasy (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-14860 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-14860 is a high-severity vulnerability in [UNKNOWN] syndesis, published on 8 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14860 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: [UNKNOWN] syndesis. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14860/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14860/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14860
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14860
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-14860

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