Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in elogd.c in ELOG 2.6.2 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML…

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in elogd.c in ELOG 2.6.2 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) the filename for downloading, which is not quoted in an error message by the send_file_direct function, and (2) the Type or Category values in a New entry, which is not properly handled in an error message by the submit_elog function.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.6.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 23580 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• elog-nonexistent-files-xss(29986) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 20881 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• DSA-1242 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 22638 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2006-4315 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 20882 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392016 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 20:04 UTC.