CVE-2009-3618

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in viewvc.py in ViewVC 1.0 before 1.0.9 and 1.1 before 1.1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the view parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

viewvc: 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 (+4)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
http://osvdb.org/56997
http://secunia.com/advisories/36292
http://secunia.com/advisories/36311
http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/%2Acheckout%2A/viewvc/tags/1.1.2/CHANGES?revision=2235&pathrev=HEAD
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/16/10
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2257
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52430
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00557.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00566.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
http://osvdb.org/56997

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