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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-5938: viewvc -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Feb 9, 2017
Added
Feb 10, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the nav_path function in lib/viewvc.py in ViewVC before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.26 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the nav_data name.

Solution

debian-upgrade-viewvc
Title
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