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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2020-5283

Change History

CVE Modified by GitHub, Inc. 4/02/2020 9:15:11 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed Description 
ViewVC before versions 1.1.28 and 1.2.1 has a XSS vulnerability in CVS show_subdir_lastmod support.
The impact of this vulnerability is mitigated by the need for an attacker to have commit privileges to a CVS repository
exposed by an otherwise trusted ViewVC instance that also has the `show_subdir_lastmod` feature enabled. 
The attack vector involves files with unsafe names (names that, when embedded into an HTML stream, would
cause the browser to run unwanted code), which themselves can be challenging to create.

This vulnerability is patched in versions 1.2.1 and 1.1.28.
 
ViewVC before versions 1.1.28 and 1.2.1 has a XSS vulnerability in CVS show_subdir_lastmod support. The impact of this vulnerability is mitigated by the need for an attacker to have commit privileges to a CVS repository exposed by an otherwise trusted ViewVC instance that also has the `show_subdir_lastmod` feature enabled. The attack vector involves files with unsafe names (names that, when embedded into an HTML stream, would cause the browser to run unwanted code), which themselves can be challenging to create. This vulnerability is patched in versions 1.2.1 and 1.1.28.