Title: ViewCVS Viewcvs.py Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
ViewCVS is an application that allows users to browse CVS repositories via the web.
ViewCVS is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue exists in the 'viewcvs.py' script and is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input that will be included in error pages. A remote attacker could take advantage of this issue by constructing a malicious link to a site running the vulnerable software that include embedded hostile HTML and script code. If this link is visited by a victim user, the attacker-supplied code may be rendered in their browser in the context of the site.
This could permit theft of cookie-based authentication credentials since the attacker's script code may access properties of the vulnerable site as the user visiting the malicious link. This vulnerability will also permit other types of attacks because the attacker may influence how the site is rendered to the victim of the attack.
Affected Products:
- ViewCVS ViewCVS 1.0.0-dev
References:
- ViewCVS: ViewCVS Project Page
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