Vulnerability CVE-2006-5442
Published: 2006-10-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
ViewVC Undefined Charset UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability
Stefan Esser
23.10.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Viewvc -> Viewvc 

 References:
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
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