XSS in Netcat
CVE-2008-5729
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in AIST NetCat 3.12 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) form and (2) control parameters to FCKeditor/neditor.php, and the (3) path parameter to admin/siteinfo/iframe.inc.php.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.014 (72.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 72.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Netcat — versions 1.1, 2.0, 2.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- securityreason.com/securityalert/4819 (third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47577 (vdb-entry)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7560 (exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32992 (Exploit, vdb-entry)