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CVE-2007-5496

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-5496 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in setroubleshoot 2.0.5, affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SELinux distributions. A local attacker can inject malicious web script or HTML by crafting a file or process name, which then appears in AVC log entries used by sealert to compose HTML documents. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.9, indicating low severity due to its local attack vector and partial impact on integrity, with no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not a high-priority threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:selinux:setroubleshoot:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.9LOW

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: setroubleshoot-0:2.0.5-3.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: setroubleshoot-plugins-0:2.0.4-2.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-5496Moderate

setroubleshoot log injection

May 21, 2008

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/30339
securitytracker.com / id
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42592
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10455
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0061.html
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/29324