Security advisory

{
  "id": "b218cedc780b23809d8ca7c313690faadfd64fddfdbfb533b3275ff4b7592e53",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-6986",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-6986",
    "summary": "SPARQL Injection in VIVO Vitro v1.10.0 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SPARQL via the uri parameter, leading to a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS), as demonstrated by crafted use of FILTER%20regex in a /individual?uri= request.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-6986",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-6986",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-6986",
        "GHSA-hgq9-q8g2-3jmg"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/vivo-project/vitro",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "4d61593f35efedf129fefe37525c116ef35a3737"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "4d61593f35efedf129fefe37525c116ef35a3737"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:duraspace:vitro:1.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.10.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.10.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.10.0",
            "vitro-1.10.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-6986.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:42.241415171Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/vivo-project/Vitro/pull/111",
        "https://github.com/kevinbackhouse/SecurityExploits/tree/0ec74459ac53685a7959ed58d580ef8abece3685/vivo-project"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-6986",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382798,
  "published_at": "2019-01-28T15:29:00.337+00:00"
}