CVE-2006-5442

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

viewvc: through 1.0.2

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
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

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