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ViewVC UTF-7 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA22395
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Release Date:
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2006-10-16
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Last Update:
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2006-10-27
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Popularity:
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3,453 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | ViewVC 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-5442
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Description:
Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in ViewVC, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
The vulnerability is caused due to the application not sending a charset HTTP header nor specifying a charset in the HTML body. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site via UTF-7 encoded script code.
The vulnerability is reported in version 1.0.2. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 1.0.3.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Stefan Esser
Changelog:
2006-10-27: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_102006.134.html
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