CVE-2006-5442

Impact

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.

Affected products

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• 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
• 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