PT-2018-6071 · Shout · Shout

Ctian1 · Published 2018-06-04 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-16043

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: Shout versions 0.44.0 through 0.49.3

Description: The issue concerns the /topic command in messages, which is not properly escaped, allowing attackers to inject HTML scripts. This can lead to cross-site scripting, where the injected scripts run in the victim's browser.

Recommendations: Update to version 0.50.0 or later.

Fix

XSS

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-80

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16043

GHSA-26Q7-G57V-MXCP

Affected Products

Shout

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-26q7-g57v-mxcp · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16043 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16043 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/erming/shout/pull/344 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/322 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-26q7-g57v-mxcp · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/322 · Note