CVE-2009-1635

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-05-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the WebAccess component in Novell GroupWise 7.x before 7.03 HP3 and 8.x before 8.0 HP2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the User.lang parameter to the login page (aka gw/webacc), (2) style expressions in a message that contains an HTML file, or (3) vectors associated with incorrect protection mechanisms against scripting, as demonstrated using whitespace between JavaScript event names and values.

Affected products

Novell GroupWise: 7.0, 7.0-sp1, 7.0-sp2, 7.0-sp3, 7.0.0-sp1, 7.0.0-sp2 (+9)

References

http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0905-exploits/groupwise-xss.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/35177
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022267
http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=7003271
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7003267&sliceId=1
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7003268&sliceId=1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503700/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503885/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35061
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35066
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1393
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472987

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