ViewVC 1.0.2 and earlier does not specify a charset in its HTTP headers or HTML documents, which allows remote attackers to conduct…

Description

ViewVC 1.0.2 and earlier does not specify a charset in its HTTP headers or HTML documents, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks that inject arbitrary UTF-7 encoded JavaScript code via a view.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 20061015 Advisory 10/2006: ViewVC Undefined Charset UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• [announce] 20061013 ViewVC 1.0.3 released [SECURITY FIXES] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_102006.134.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1755 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 22395 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• viewvc-utf7-xss(29576) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc/trunk/CHANGES?rev=HEAD (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20543 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 19:48 UTC.