Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-5442 - HTML Injection vulnerability in ViewVC UTF-7 Charset

CVSS 6.8 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

MEDIUM

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

PARTIAL

Integrity impact

PARTIAL

Availability impact

PARTIAL

network

viewvc

NVD

Published: 2006-10-21

Updated: 2018-10-17

Summary

ViewVC 1.0.2 and earlier does not specify a charset in its HTTP headers or HTML documents, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks that inject arbitrary UTF-7 encoded JavaScript code via a view.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Viewvc Viewvc Viewvc 0.3.0 Viewvc Viewvc 0.4.0 Viewvc Viewvc 0.5.0 Viewvc Viewvc 0.6.0 Viewvc Viewvc 0.7.0 Viewvc Viewvc 0.8 Viewvc Viewvc 0.9 Viewvc Viewvc 0.9.1 Viewvc Viewvc 0.9.2 Viewvc Viewvc 0.9.3 Viewvc Viewvc 0.9.4 Viewvc Viewvc 1.0.0 Viewvc Viewvc 1.0.1 Viewvc Viewvc 1.0.2	16

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22395
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1755
http://viewvc.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=5&raw=true
http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc/trunk/CHANGES?rev=HEAD
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_102006.134.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448762/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20543
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29576