XSS in Cacert

CVE-2008-7017

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in analyse.php in CAcert 20080921, and possibly other versions before 20080928, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the CN (CommonName) field in the subject of an X.509 certificate.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.009 (56.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Cacert — versions 20080921
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)