CVE-2017-5938

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the nav_path function in lib/viewvc.py in ViewVC before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.26 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the nav_data name.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
openSUSE Leap: 42.2
Opensuse Project Leap: 42.1
viewvc: through 1.1.25

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00082.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3784
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96185
https://github.com/viewvc/viewvc/commit/9dcfc7daa4c940992920d3b2fbd317da20e44aad
https://github.com/viewvc/viewvc/issues/137
https://github.com/viewvc/viewvc/releases/tag/1.0.14
https://github.com/viewvc/viewvc/releases/tag/1.1.26
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00082.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3784
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96185

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