CVE-2006-5442 (GCVE-0-2006-5442)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-10-21 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:48
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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.
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