CVE-2006-5442 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2006-10-21

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: 1.5% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:viewvc:viewvc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-5427	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01464.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Viewvc Viewvc

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:48:30.264Z

Reserved: 2006-10-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5442

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-10-21T00:07:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5442

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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