CVE-2017-5938 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting ViewVC versions prior to 1.0.14 and 1.1.26, as well as specific Debian and openSUSE distributions. An unauthenticated attacker can inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the nav_data name in the nav_path function, requiring user interaction to exploit. While the CVSS score is 6.1, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
42.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse_project:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.1.25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:viewvc:viewvc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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