PT-2019-8739 · Freebsd · Freebsd Cvsweb

Published 2019-02-04 · Updated 2019-02-07 · CVE-2018-1000998

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 FreeBSD CVSweb versions 2.x

Description The issue is related to a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability present in all pages of the affected software. This vulnerability can result in limited impact, as CVSweb is anonymous and read-only. However, it might impact other sites on the same domain. The attack appears to be exploitable via a victim loading a specially crafted URL.

Recommendations For FreeBSD CVSweb versions 2.x, update to version 3.x to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1000998

Affected Products

Freebsd Cvsweb

References · 8

• 🔥 https://kvakil.me/posts/cvsweb · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000998 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000998 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000998 · Vendor Advisory