CVE-2006-5442

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5442
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-10-21 00:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionViewVC 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Viewvc Viewvc All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
ViewVC UTF-7 Charset Unspecified HTML Injection Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
viewvc: Subversion af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 viewvc.tigris.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
ViewVC UTF-7 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
viewvc.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 viewvc.tigris.org
ViewVC Undefined Charset UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability - CXSecurity.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Hardened-PHP Project - PHP Security - Advisory 10/2006 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.hardened-php.net
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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