PT-2017-16772 · Viewvc · Viewvc

Cmpilato · Published 2017-02-09 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-5938

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ViewVC versions prior to 1.0.14 ViewVC versions 1.1.x prior to 1.1.26

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the nav path function in lib/viewvc.py, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the nav data name.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.14, update to version 1.0.14 or later. For versions 1.1.x prior to 1.1.26, update to version 1.1.26 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-5938

DLA-820-1

DSA-3784-1

MGASA-2017-0048

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12857-1

Affected Products

Viewvc

References · 27

• https://github.com/viewvc/viewvc/commit/9dcfc7daa4c940992920d3b2fbd317da20e44aad · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/6 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5938 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5938 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/viewvc · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0048.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3784-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12857-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5938 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3784-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0048 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00082.html · Vendor Advisory