dataCycle User API Password Reset And Confirmation Flows Trust Attacker- Controlled Redirect Targets

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 including version 25.07.3, a low-privileged authenticated API user can supply `forwardToUrl` and `redirectUrl` values when triggering password reset or confirmation flows. Those values are then embedded into the outgoing email workflow without host allowlisting. This creates two related abuse paths:

- password reset or confirmation links can be sent to a victim with the token already attached to an attacker-controlled `forwardToUrl`

- after a legitimate password reset completes, the browser is redirected to attacker-controlled `redirectUrl`

In practice, this can be used for phishing, token capture, confirmation hijacking, or steering a victim from a trusted email

into an attacker domain. This is patched in version 26.06.08.