In Eclipse BIRT, starting from version 2.6.2, the default configuration allowed to retrieve a report from the same host using an absolute HTTP path for the report parameter (e.g. __report=http://xyz.com/report.rptdesign). If the host indicated in the __report parameter matched the HTTP Host header value, the report would be retrieved. However, the Host header can be tampered with on some configurations where no virtual hosts are put in place (e.g. in the default configuration of Apache Tomcat) or when the default host points to the BIRT server. This vulnerability was patched on Eclipse BIRT 4.13.

Affected Packages

Maven org.eclipse.birt:org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer

Affected versions: 2.6.2 (fixed in 4.13)

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-0100

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-4grc-q4fj-45p8

Published

March 15, 2023 3:30 PM

Last Modified

March 22, 2023 7:54 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Maven

Primary Package

org.eclipse.birt:org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 25, 2025 6:29 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.